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...native state (1914), did as much as any man to bring prohibition to the U.S. Like many of his contemporaries who believed that morality could be legislated, he periodically struck out at lesser demons. Dancing, tobacco, Coca-Cola and even football ("neither manly nor Christian") felt his indignant lash. But in 1930, this paragon of virtue, by then long a bishop and according to H. L. Mencken "the most powerful ecclesiastic ever heard of in America," was accused by the elders of his own church of immorality, bucketshop gambling, flour-hoarding (during World War I), adultery, lying and "gross moral...
...people, call them "democrats." They are no more than families in flight. Doctors and lawyers, Zeiss technicians and garage mechanics, slave miners and girls tired of being raped in Soviet mess halls-they have nothing in common but their flight from evil and terror, from the lie and the lash. Down their dark, narrow corridor they come, heading, half drunk with fear, toward a single, small light...
British employers and working men both are slow to change their ways. Both have become enmeshed in restrictive practices, the employers to shield themselves from the lash of competition, the workers to "spread the work." Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's economic boss, was well aware of all this last summer when he and ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman cooked up the idea of an Anglo-American Council on Productivity. The main purpose was to give Britain-as tactfully as possible-the benefit of the best U.S. practice. The first British reaction was one of outraged pride and suspicion (TIME...
Professor Leach is expected to lash out in all directions, since he backs no candidate, fully feeling that no one of them "has appraised our position realistically and formulated his politics along such lines...
Dance Time. When it came time for bristling, mustachioed Sammartino to defend himself, he spoke with measured insolence. "We have not come here to do obeisance to the lash nor to dance to Madame Pompadour's tune," said he. "This is not a fashionable nightclub or the anteroom of a palace. It is the parliament of a free people, and it should be made plain to the people here & now that this Chamber will not obey the commands of meddling old colonels, nor heed orders given in perfumed letters from the boudoir of any ruler...