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Much of the time to date has been spent in preliminary work of many types--registration with the College administrative offices, medical check-up examinations, assignment to quarters, and the first touches of the basic Navy discipline which will govern the daily schedules of all men connected with the plan
Consent of the Governed. All the discussion had not been pitched on so hysterical a level. Ohio's grey, motherly, plain-spoken Republican Frances P. Bolton had warned: "If we cannot change our attitude about race we are going to bring upon the heads of our children . . . a cataclysm." Chicago's William L. Dawson, the only Negro member of Congress, had best stated the issue: "A democracy is that government that exists by the consent of the governed, and that is the thing we are trying to do here today-to give certain citizens the right...
...welfare of 331,500,000 followers. The layman has seen it bend to temporary expediency. But, as in its disagreement with Nazi Germany over the meaning of the 1933 Concordat, the Vatican has never been known to surrender rights it considers basic: to educate the youth, guide the family, govern the bishops...
...step the Germans may well nullify by painting their own fighters the same way. But Flying Fortress and Liberator gunners will probably not be overly worried by such dodges. Where there is doubt, a gunner shoots at anything within range. It is up to friendly fighter pilots to govern themselves accordingly...
...complained. Said Rayna's spirit: "Whoever told you you had to be a revolutionary? Everybody isn't born with an obligation to act." Mrs. Prohme's spirit urged Sheean, if he could not fight, to write against "the whole system of organized injustice by which few govern many, hundreds of millions work in darkness to support a few thousands in ease . . . and the greater part of the human race has to live in filth and starvation to maintain an artificial system of profit." Sheean promised. The result was Personal History and Not Peace but a Sword (TIME...