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Without a Murmur. The CCF, which feels the standard socialist urge for state trading, thought this was wonderful. No one was surprised at that. The surprise was that men who believed in free enterprise and free trading swallowed the bill without a murmur. The only loud protest came from the Progressive Conservatives in Parliament who cried that the "Government was out to outsocialize the socialists." But the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, which represents the farmers, announced that they were "100% behind the bill." The Government had counted on the farmers' long-standing dislike of the feast or famine days...
...think that several of the Ministers deceive themselves; they regard the whole electorate as enthusiastic converts to Socialism. They believe that, however trying and irksome our present troubles may be, the average man will blissfully murmur: 'Attlee is in 10 Downing Street. All's right with the world.'. . . Labor is justifying the voters' faith. . . . But this is the transition period. . . . This is the time when the faint hearts may turn away from...
...wanted to retire by last July 1. But it was not until last month that Harry Truman regretfully agreed. Doctors had discovered that Byrnes had a heart murmur aggravated by incessant overwork. The President's mind had been made up long ago: if he ever needed a new Secretary of State, he would call on General George Marshall. He radioed Marshall in Nanking, and made his offer...
Continued suppression of the facts behind the decisions in labor-management differences is more than anything else a sign of weak and subservient unionism. No healthy union would sign without a murmur a contract which in these inflationary days gives its members only an imaginary wage rise--as yesterday's "grant" from the University so obviously does...
...pornographic. When a bookseller bucks Boston, he has to undergo a lot of direct and indirect persecution. Mr. Isenstadt has been undergoing this persecution but will continue to defend his constitutional right to sell books and the right of any individual to buy them." There followed a low murmur of applause from the first term law students jamming the aisle of the store...