Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contributing local issues. Added to this, the Republicans ran a poor campaign with an unfortunate candidate. Lieutenant Governor Lloyd Wood, a cigar-chomping politician. Wood had to carry all of the liabilities and secured none of the assets of the Republican organization's 100-year-old reputation. The evil that political machines do lives long after their effectiveness is gone...
...right-wing Republican CHICAGO TRIBUNE: The apparent defeat of Irving M. Ives in New York, even though it brings the multimillionaire social democrat Averell Harriman to the governor's chair, is no calamity, for it means the defeat of Thomas E. Dewey, the evil influence in the Republican Party for ten years. Ives was Dewey's hand-picked candidate. The foundering of the Dewey machine opens up the healthy prospect that the Pawling Machiavelli will not come to the 1956 Republican Convention with New York's 96 delegates in his pocket for the fourth time...
...Detective (Facet; Columbia). The priest as the detective-symbolizing consecrated good against dedicated evil-appealed to G. K. Chesterton's keen sense of antithesis, and in the Father Brown stories he rammed the paradox, like an intellectual skeleton, through some otherwise flabby fiction. In this movie based on the stories, the intellectual skeleton is removed, and the film falls all of a sentimental heap...
Root of All Evil. In Omaha, Mrs. John Schrank faced the fact that she is allergic to U. S. paper money...
When the Student Council tentatively voted last week to abolish the Senior Class Day Committee, it behaved much like the quack doctor who decided to cut off his patient's toe because of a sore toe. Recognizing the evil in the election procedure for the Permanent Class and Class Day Committees is meritable, but the Council should make a more thorough examination of the problem before its final decision tonight...