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Gist of the cannonade, in the words of Averell Harriman: "Any decision to cut [mutual security] is a decision to reduce the strength which is being built in the free world for our common defense against the threat of the Kremlin. A substantial cut would gravely impair our security...
...argument was: marriage, in its happiness, is grand and simple; nothing should impair its dignity. Therefore, divorce in its unhappiness should be simple and grand. Everything should be done to support its dignity. It was an extraordinary feat for a Private Member to put such an important law on the statute book. Many look upon it as Herbert's chief success...
...McCollum case is not a holding that all released-time programs are per se unconstitutional . . . The Constitution does not demand that every friendly gesture between church and state shall be discountenanced. The so-called 'wall of separation' may be built so high and so broad as to impair both state and church ... It must also be remembered that the First Amendment not only forbids laws 'respecting an establishment of religion,' but also laws 'prohibiting the free exercise thereof.' We must not destroy one in an effort to preserve the other...
...supplied by labor, to cover the back-room activities of the leaders of industry who staff the ODM." But, said the bosses, "he will get no such window-dressing" from organized labor. And with a self-righteous assertion that "we of the U.L.P.C. have voiced these criticisms not to impair our defense program but to improve it," they resigned en masse from all the advisory Government positions they had held...
...year-old President Johnston was just as confident about the Main Line as Investor Cobden had been in the Panic of 1857. "That the stock will go up again ... I have no doubt," wrote Cobden to a friend. "Nothing but an earthquake or some other convulsion of nature can impair the value ... of the richest soil of the world...