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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real Republican and he has made Democrats angry. This year the liberal voters do not like Nixon; why should they? If they did, they would not be liberal. I am not using liberal in its old sense, but rather in the modern sense, which has come to mean a pink...
...fact that Republicans were getting along with each other did not mean that they intended to brake on the curves. Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie, the convention keynoter (see below), spurned Democratic Keynoter Frank Clement's highballing forensics. But Langlie set a hard-hitting style for the Republican campaign when he charged the Democrats with "a naked admission that they are now addicted to the principle that loyalty to a political party comes ahead of loyalty to our beloved country...
...week's end Britain's Selwyn Lloyd (who had originally called the seizure a greater threat to Britain than Korea or the Berlin blockade) made some incisive contributions to the search for a temperate answer. "Sovereignty," he said, "does not mean the right to do exactly what you please within your own territory. The maxim, 'So use your own that you do not hurt that which belongs to another (Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas),' is one which is accepted by every legal system in the world." Furthermore, said Lloyd, "there is no real substance...
...habitues something real to chew on. It approved a new 42-hour week for insurance employees−but provided that they work from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. without a luncheon break. Once the shock passed, the workers welcomed the change: abolishing the two-hour lunch would mean for thousands of them only two subway or bus trips a day instead of four. And hard-up Spanish workers, most of whom must hold two jobs in order to make ends meet, now had their "afternoons" free for side jobs. At week's end Spain's major banks announced...
...axiom: the more luxury, the quicker a nation degenerates. This was true enough in Babylon, Greece, Rome, Bourbon France and Czarist Russia, where luxury perched atop a pyramid of misery, ignorance and hopeless poverty-Fabergé eggs sprouting from a dungheap. But in the U.S. luxury has come to mean not a declining economy but an expanding one. It is not a historic nightmare but a large part of the American dream. In the words of Ben Franklin, who saw ahead of his time: "Is not the hope of one day being able to purchase and enjoy luxuries a great...