Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Career Man. In Taipei, Formosa, the China Post reported speculation as to why Dr. Shen Chang-huan had been appointed Ambassador to Spain: "Because the last two words of his name sound like Don Juan; because he knows how to dance the tango; because he was born in the year of the Bull...
...curly-haired Clint Anderson took early to Democratic politics. He handled several Depression-era state and federal jobs, dealing mostly with unemployment and relief in New Mexico, in 1940 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the first of three terms. He made a House name for himself in hard-digging committee investigations, e.g., of Race-Baiter Gerald L. K. Smith, of food-rationing abuses during World War II. In 1945 President Harry Truman, a poker companion of Anderson's, named him Secretary of Agriculture, succeeding Henry A. Wallace. Serving at that post until 1948, Anderson...
...doubts that he would play an active part in G.O.P. presidential politics next year had all but vanished. At a Corning press conference, he carefully refrained from disavowing a group of Republican Congressmen, led by New York's Stuyvesant Wainwright, who had announced their intention to enter his name in New Hampshire's early-bird presidential primary. Was he upset by the plan? "Well." said Nelson Rockefeller, "I was upset about a lot of things in the beginning-but I've got used to them now." Reminded that once he is entered in New Hampshire, he must...
...That this stock answer and similar slogans are passively accepted by many "moderate liberals"--often without intellectual study of the economic and political implications involved for our society, but in smug and self-satisfied silence --this is the danger. By his willingness to "go along," the "moderate liberal" in name becomes the Respectable Radical in practice...
...unbelief--as also in the atheist admiration of Jesus and the agnostic appreciation of the Church. The undergraduate skeptic seems to have forgotten what was the rock on which the Western moral structure has rested for two millenia, forgotten from what book his ethical principles originally sprang, in Whose name meaning and purpose have overtly or covertly been found in life since time immortal, and by Whose will good and evil were first thought to be distinguished and have been held in rigid antithesis ever since...