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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threw away 43 pieces of bulk-rate mail. Increasing the postal rates on this bothersome junk would help our postmen and, most of all, the Post Office Department. They have to handle it and run up a deficit doing it. But this could never happen, since it would mean increasing rates on magazines and newspapers...
...President should be reelected, that would mean for the Eisenhower group a lease of four more years during which to try to remake the party into what is sometimes called "the Eisenhower image." By this is meant an internationalist, moderately progressive political organization which has "moderation" as its motto. It also might bring on a prolonged Republican control of government...
...Compromiser. By instinct and his Socialist upbringing a pacifist and anticolonialist, Guy Mollet did not like the role he was cast in. Lacoste's 200,000 men would mean calling up French youths months early and keeping others in the army past their time, outraging thousands of French mothers with votes. On the other hand, talk of negotiations with "the murderers of French women and children" would antagonize thousands of others. For eight hours the Cabinet debated and argued. Lacoste at one point resigned, then was persuaded to reconsider. Finally Mollet compromised on a crash economic program...
...Although a threat of suicide does not necessarily mean that the individual will go through with it, the converse is not true-nearly everybody who commits suicide has given forewarning...
Nelson argued for an even stricter interpretation of the doctrine of separation. Even history, he maintained, cannot usually be taught objectively. "The Crusades, for instance, mean glory to the Christians and destruction to the Jews," he said...