Word: handmaiden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor. Long the handmaiden of the Democratic Party, organized labor has suffered its worst shame in decades at the hands of the Senate's McClellan laborrackets investigating committee. The pitiless expose of labor corruption by Democrat John McClellan has revolted the nation and emboldened Republicans to make labor reform a campaign issue. Last week the Denver County Republican leaders publicly endorsed a right-to-work constitutional amendment-a maneuver calculated to lure some of the state's 200,000 independent voters. Congressional failure to pass the Kennedy-Ives labor-reform bill will be laid essentially to the Democrats...
Cosmic Rays: For his third show in the Bell System's science series (Our Mr. Sun, Hemo the Magnificent), Producer-Director Frank Capra again trotted out entertainment as the handmaiden of education. Before a panel of Dostoevsky, Dickens and Poe, played by Bil Baird puppets, Dr. Research (Dr. Frank Baxter) and Actor Richard Carlson submitted their scientific candidate for a detective-story prize. Between fancy patter with the panel, the pair used film, animated cartoons and laboratory models to show how the sleuths of science discovered, clue by clue, what little is known about the cosmic rays that bombard...
...spending was not new. Still, the reaction against Ike's budget was so widespread that some Democratic partisans were quick to suggest a considerable disenchantment with the President. In Cervi's Rocky Mountain Journal, a Denver weekly, Democratic Publisher Eugene Cervi crowed: "Big business and its willing handmaiden, the fat metropolitan dailies . . . loved Ike as long as he was a 'weak President.' Now that the President's social conscience is beginning to bother him, the harlots of journalism are screaming." More realistically, the Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill thought that "Mr. Eisenhower...
...subject matter they turned to the Apocryphal New Testament for scenes from the life of Mary. One of the best preserved panels (see color page) shows the child Mary installed as a handmaiden in the temple as a thanksgiving offering by her parents. According to the Apocryphal Book of James: "And Mary was in the temple of the Lord as a dove that is nurtured; and she received food from the hand of an angel." To portray Mary the artist used gentle modulations of beige, blue and gold, which achieve the soft tones of tempera painting. Little effort was made...
...inner world, which links him mysteriously and universally to his fellow men. Yet, in turn, this vision of spiritual (rather than merely social) brotherhood did not lead Davenport toward mysticism. Right reason is still man's supreme weapon: "The Thomist doctrine, that Reason is the handmaiden of Faith, has never really been overthrown." Where does such faith-with-reason lead America? Daven port did not live long enough to give more than clues to an answer. One clue lies in his feeling that the conflict between old-fashioned American individualism and the modern pressures for the welfare state need...