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...Baltimore's Johns Hopkins hospital) had commuted 56 death sentences to life imprisonment in Japan, and pardoned all those serving prison terms. Later he even pardoned three of the men once sentenced to die. Said the President: "I do not want my children and my people to inherit from me hate for people who yet might be our friends . . . After all, destiny has made us neighbors...
...There is the cold insanity of the wounded moray as it fights the spear, and glares hate from what is surely the most evil eye in creation. There is the merry jig of the infant octopus, no bigger than a finger, as it watches the underwater world it will inherit through the lucent membrane of its natal sac. There is the grave pavane of the beruffled nudibranchs, tiny fish that swirl among moving fronds like bright dancers in an oriental court. And there is the fish that walks, the fish that is nothing but a mouth, and the fish that...
...fallacy of his fears. Who has prevented him from writing those . . . lines [to the American Society of Newspaper Editors] ? Who will prohibit his denouncing the Republicans, Wall Street and organized religion? Here is an educator who would have us establish a special, privileged class of citizenry which would inherit complete immunity solely by reason of a profession in education. Is this democracy ? Or is it the very reactionary society which these "liberal" minds attack ? ... As the Red Dean of Canterbury spreads the infamous lie of American brutality, so do pinkish deans and professors in American schools spread the equally infamous...
Early in 1953, magazines were commenting on the world political situation Ike would inherit. The U.S. News knew exactly. In the January 9 issue under the heading "Ikes Plan" the magazine said, "Move fast after January 20. Get the ball rolling. The first hundred days will tell the story. Act decisively then. Momentum, once started, will carry the new administration through for many months. Change overwhelmingly favored by voters must be shown quickly." The next week brought another issue, announcing that Eisenhower's ball might take a while to get started: "First period to end June 30. That's Truman...
...greed, wanton self-debasement, venal exploitation and progressive debauchery," and sentenced him to three to six years in Sing Sing for pimping. There was a silver lining: if he behaves himself, pudgy "Mickey" Jelke will get out not long after his 25th birthday in November 1954, when he will inherit his $1,000,000 oleomargarine fortune...