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...Army recruit at 17, and a holder of the Purple Heart? Some of the witnesses thought Gallagher believed in the Communist doctrines; others thought that Gallagher was one who enjoyed lording it over his fellows, seeming important and influential, and that he was soft and pliable, receptive to the meager comforts the Communists could accord him. "I know I'm a sorry son of a bitch," Gallagher told one of the reactionaries one day, "but after all, I know I can't quit ..." The reactionaries were not sympathetic: "I told him if I lived and he lived," said...
...first two voyages Columbus discovered Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, etc. Only on his third voyage (1498) did he reach the mainland. Author Arciniegas claims that Amerigo actually reached the continent the year before. From the meager evidence (mainly letters), other scholars doubt this, believe that Amerigo followed Columbus by a year...
...beaten no fewer than 13 times. Nevertheless, in 1866, the faculty was back again to make the daring announcement that Berea would take in Negroes. Even when Kentucky's Day Law of 1904 specifically forbade the practice, Berea remained faithful to its trust. It dipped into its meager savings and with $400,000 started the Lincoln Institute to take care of those whom until 1950 it could not legally accept...
Compared to the resources of federal and state governments, the capital of private foundations is meager. But there are legitimate areas of giving in which foundations can make a great contribution. While government action may be bound by considerations of public policy, foundations can often risk unpopularity by undertaking necessary research. Where popular complacency could bind government to inaction, studies by private groups like the Fund for the Republic can break down some of this complacency...
Their rule is strict. They rise at midnight for Matins and Lauds, and rise again at 6 for Prime and Mass, and the day's routine. Meals are meager (no meat ever allowed). The sisters fast from Sept. 14, the Feast of the Holy Cross, until Easter Saturday. They maintain strict silence at all times, except for the evening's hour of recreation. (Every now and then, the chaplain at Sing Sing comes over from nearby Ossining and asks how "the lifers" are doing...