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...addition, "tattling" has bad moral connotations for Americans who have learned from earliest school days how "wicked" Benedict Arnold and his ilk are. The national ethic, which has no place for informing, they maintain, should take precedence over the whim of a committee...
...appearance of such people as Gerhart Eisler before University audiences. When Eisler spoke in 1948 and 1949 on such topics as "The Marxist Theory of Social Change" newspapers and commentators throughout the country branded the University as "Communist-run" and called upon the administration to ban Eisler and his ilk from the University scene...
...muster. Said the Senators: "We see no further good to be gained by having fine, loyal [Republicans] further threatened, coerced, browbeaten and tortured. Therefore, we are recommending to all our loyal friends that the Republican banner in Indiana fly under the leadership of George Craig . . . and men of [his] ilk...
What is a wonder, however, is that Ward, even if he is elected to the School Committee, will have a difficult time combining with politicians of his ilk to block constructive measures like the Schools Report. The New Boston Committee is the reason for this recent improvement in Boston politics. The commitee is no panacea; it is no machine. And the candidates it endorses are not always qualified in every respect for office. They are generally, however, the pick of the field...
...refused to expel the Lubells. But we cannot subscribe to the CRIMSON's anomalous conception of the Harvard Law Review as at the same time a one-way ticket to Wall Street and a field ripe for sowing the seeds of subversion, from which Mr. Lubell and his ilk must be excluded...