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Attacks on James Michael Curley, Lyons has found out in the past week, are taken as a personal affront by the Irish Catholie nucleus of his strength. The cold welcome they received on arrival in Boston from the Emerald Isle has knit them into a tight political and sociological unit. Reformers are dismayed to find that this mass of voters feels its security rises and falls with the fortunes of its champion...
...Mayo Clinic and with more than a score of other physicians all over the U.S. As she chatted with the President, four Missouri physicians dropped in to discuss her progress. But it woul'd be six to eight weeks before anyone would know whether the fractured bone would knit...
...Boss. There was not much doubt along the dockfront's rough-&-tumble Calle Desamparados about who called the play that shut down the Seatrain. Boss Arcelio Iglesias, Cuba's No. 4 Communist, had knit 9.000 dock wallopers into a powerful Maritime Federation that usually got what it wanted. With many more hands than jobs they contrived to shorten hours, specialize functions, make work. Their weapon: the slowdown...
...democratic politicking. On one hand, this treatment avoids the monumental task of distinguishing party members from progressives who do their own thinking and who, all too often, are swept away by indiscriminate housecleaners. But what can guarantee Communist conduct in democratic activities? Only the greatest vigilance prevents a tightly knit minority, well-trained in political techniques, from feeding on the indifference of the moderates until it emerges as master of policy and direction. Many youth groups such as the American Youth for Democracy have maintained their programs but lost their backing because idealism in accepting Communists gave way to apathy...
...sheets, etc.,--were hopelessly inadequate until the end of 1944. The greatest obstacle to effective I & E functioning was the psychology of the average G.I. Coupled with his dislike and distrust of anything military was his resistance toward compulsory education. The average American, brought up in perhaps the closest knit individualistic environment in the world, doesn't like to be told anything. Rabble rousers and the Hearst press can fool him easily with sly propaganda, but direct instruction, though conducted with the finest intentions, leaves him cold and unaffected. In effect, the Army was trying to break a bad American...