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...support of Truman's foreign policy and his continual bolting of the party on other issues. The elder Kennedy, to the contrary, has always been a rabid isolationist, and presumably the Taftites feel, or know, that his son, once out of the party whip's reach, will expound isolationist ideas. The Deverites' support of Lodge is more intricate; it is due in great part to personal friendship between Lodge and them. In many cases, the friendship started with Lodge's father who fought for equal rights for the Irish immigrants in the days when there were no James Michael Curleys...
Missionary Work. But Vandenberg's biggest problem was to expound the meaning of the new power in air power to the Pentagon and the White House, to convince the nation that the U.S. Air Force had become the first line of defense. First there was some missionary work to do in his own backyard. If the other services were denying the Air Force its rightful responsibility, maybe it was because it too often seemed irresponsible. The prewar airman was bold and brave, and, for his time, precise, but he had managed to sell the public on the idea that...
There is no legal issue here; several people in Los Angeles tried to secure an injunction forbidding further publication of the Philbrick series on the grounds that it was prejudicing jurors in a trial of communists. They failed. It is indisputable that any man has the right to expound whatever he wishes in print so long as it is not libelous...
...generally agreed that the primary purpose of a university is to provide a medium in which ideas of various and sundry views may be voiced competently. This function is so important that it cannot be over-emphasized. However, does this mean that in order to expound the dogmas of Marxism one must necessarily be a member of the Communist Party? To give a course that deals adequately with the Conservative Party of Great Britain does the instructor have to belong to it? I think not... In order to have the views of communism expressed, it does not follow that this...
...engineering," looked like a church -ly Frank Sinatra, in his Paisley bow tie and purple jacket, his big ears enlarged in shadows on the blackboard behind him. He read his long text (Luke 9: 20-27: ". . . And be rejected of the elders . . ."), and in a businesslike manner proceeded to expound it-the job of youth today. "Unless we, the young people of today, go to work, we're going to lose in the end. This symbol has stood for thousands of years. To us today it stands for sacrifice, the greatest sacrifice that He made...