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...virtually invited journalistic fulminations with its Watkins-case decision, curbing the investigatory powers of Congress, and its Smith Act ruling that it is not illegal to advocate overthrow of the U.S. Government as "an abstract principle divorced from any effort to instigate action to that end." Some of the loudest outcries came from newspapers that had championed McCarthy; they ranged from the Omaha World-Herald's gibe that it is now "all right to teach that the White House should be blown up," to the Cleveland Plain Dealer's invitation: "Well, comrades, you've got what...
...16th century Calvinist John Knox who thundered loudest against hierarchical control of the kirks in Scotland, then Roman Catholic. Knox and fellow theologians declared that church authority passed directly from the word of God to the church congregations, and the present system of church rule by locally elected elders and a nationally elected moderator who administers the presbyteries evolved from Knox's pronouncement...
...Statesman and Nation, in its entertainment column, carried a notice by the Unity Theater: "Burlesque-The Loudest Show in Town. Nightly police raids...
...grand finale to its angry campaign against President Eisenhower's $71.8 billion budget, the Chamber of Commerce last week staged the loudest protest yet at its 45th annual meeting in Washington. There, before 4,200 delegates, the Chamber cried for a cut of $5 billion in the overall total. Training its heaviest fire on the $38 billion defense bill, which it wants reduced by $1.5 billion, the Chamber said that the idea that "all defense expenditures are essential to national security and are therefore untouchable" is a "myth...
...Look and Seventh Avenue joyfully discovered that every dress in every closet in the U.S. had been outmoded at one stroke. Every year since then, Seventh Avenue has looked to Dior to do it again. Dior duly assumed the accents proper to a dictator. "The women who are loudest for short skirts will soon be wearing the longest dresses. I know very well the women." He banished knees: "This part is never to be seen. It is bone, and I do not find bone particularly attractive." On occasion (1953) he changed direction without breaking stride, declaring: "I'm just...