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...Testament, is God's covenant with Moses and his people. The countless minute provisions of the Law, and the later commentaries which Jews say "put fences" around it, gave Jewry a complete guide to religious, social, physical behavior. Thus the Torah, in its ark or shrine, is the focal point in the most solemn synagogue services...
...familiar New Deal attack on Business last week precipitated a quarrel over a familiar New Deal paradox. The attack: FTC told the Monopoly Committee that the basing-point price system makes the steel industry "a focal centre of monopolistic infection which, if not eradicated, miy well cause the death of free capitalistic industry in the U. S." The paradox: The Administration's dual attitude toward Business-olive branch in one hand, big stick in the other...
...Dodd is her father's daughter any reader of Through Embassy Eyes will quickly see. Her account of the increasingly uneasy four and a half years the Dodds spent in Berlin is like a series of blurted indiscretions. But no one could live so long in such a focal spot in complete diplomatic immunity: some of what Martha Dodd has to tell is worth listening to, and now & again she pokes the nodding reader in the ribs with a shrewd bit of prattle...
...Presence- arrived in Manhattan on a tour of the U. S. which they are making separately (he by car, she by plane, harp "by courtesy of American Express"). Most articulate of the cult's spokesmen: one Saint Germain. Example: "He raised George Washington up to be the focal point around whom the American patriots could rally. And he appeared at Independence Hall in Philadelphia in a moment of great hesitation and doubt and made an impassioned plea for the signing of the Declaration of Independence. When they turned around, after the signing, to thank him, he had disappeared...
...traditional point to which differences between town and gown have been carried heretofore. Practically without exception, the vulnerable point in the University's armor seems to be some statement or action by teacher or student which is taken up as the battle-cry of the opposition and as the focal premise for an attack. The doctrine of Harvard in this respect has been one of academic freedom, which has been taken to include complete political freedom as well. This is the trouble center. Teachers should be free to teach from an unbiased and unhampered viewpoint. But they must remember that...