Word: paragraphic
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...popularizing the phrase, "fifth column," Martin Dies has earned himself an unenviable paragraph in H. L. Mencken, and a good many inches in the newspapers. His plea yesterday for an appropriation to continue his carte blanche investigations will irk neither the rouges nor the noirs so much as it will upset the sincere democrats in this country. If there is any one man today who symptomizes the tendency in a crisis period towards the rise of a vigilante spirit of hysteria, it is the Honorable Gentleman from Texas...
...Richard Gregg '07, in a letter to the Harvard Crimson, printed on November 15th, quotes a paragraph in the biographical statement of President Conant, contributed to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Report of the Class of 1914, which reads as follows...
Nevertheless, at least two points in the von Stade memorandum should be changed. Paragraph 2 provides that ". . . before permission is denied, the Student Council or its officers will be consulted." But how much weight will be attached to the Student Council's opinion? It should by all means be accorded every possible consideration. And paragraph 6 in effect nullifies the whole authority of the Dean's Office and the Student Council, for it vests final censorship rights in the Housemasters. "In the Houses, distribution will be permitted . . . except . . . where the Master has expressed a desire to give personal approval...
...that his brother-in-law's caution prevented him from doing more for his important friends. One thing he could do: snub the Vatican, and he pointedly refrained from asking for an audience. The Vatican's Osservatore Romano as pointedly took note of the omission in a paragraph that was clearly a rebuke. But the Vatican can neither blockade Spain nor help her to recover Gibraltar...
Anti-Adlermann Sirs: With reference to Emil Adlermann's letter in [the Sept. 9] issue, p. 4, the "God Strafe England" paragraph stamps him as a Hun and true to type. May I ask him which God is to strafe England? The Christian God-the God of the universe-whom the Nazis have repudiated, or the mythical German gods which Hitler sometimes calls upon...