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...body--the directors--is continually changing: three of the ex-presidents who want to back DeGuglielmo are not even on the board. Moreover, most CCA members are middle or upper class people whose main incentive for joining was the intangible desire to "promote honest, efficient government," as a CCA phamphlet explains. These people don't like to take orders; they prefer to follow the logic of their own moral or political position...
...distributing a phamphlet questioning the "moral basis and factual content" of a University lecture, the Harvard-Radcliffe May 2nd Committee may have violated an "unwritten rule" saleguarding academic freedom, an Administration source said yesterday...
Really the most valuable and most interesting parts of the phamphlet are the round-by-round stories of the legal battle. The analysis of Quinn's attempts to shut up the Race Track will be instructive to young lawyers how not to conduct a suit. Serious readers will be fascinated by the exhaustive, well-documented, and clear discussions of the legal posers involved in the Governor's proclamation of martial law and of the nature and power of the State Racing Commission, a model for all quasi-judicial executive bodies whose mush-room growth in the government worries many lawyers...
Best general references: Patten's Economic Basis of Protection; Hoyt's Protection vs. Free Trade; Start's Phamphlet, Early American Statesmen on the Tariff; McKinley's Speech, Cong. Rec. (1890) Vol. 21, p. 4248. Aldrich's speech, Cong...
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