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...fight with the ex-TVA head over the latter's failure to bow to the Senator's patronage pressures, McKellar bias was too much even for his anti-Lilienthal associates. But, the more recent statements of Republican Senators Bridges, Wherry and Moore are all the more dangerous for their pious disavowal of McKellar's prejudiced position while, in the same breath, they say that they will oppose Lilienthal because it would be unwise to approve a man on whose character and ability doubt has been east. They would evidently like the country to think that their stand...
...second great truth to which the signs of the times portend is that we are definitely at the end of a non-religious era of civilization, which regarded religion as an addendum to life, a pious extra, a morale-builder for the individual, but of no social relevance...
...Walter LaBuy threw out U.S. charges against Petrillo for calling a strike at station WAAF, a one-kilowatt independent which had refused to double its union staff of record librarians (TIME, June 10). The Lea act, ruled the judge, violated the1st, 5th and 13th Amendments. Cried imperial Caesar with pious fervency: "Thank God for the federal courts...
...Alamo and the rape of Lucrece. Holdfast Gaines, despite his name, is a Mohegan Indian, in the direct line of the great King Uncas himself. He is a nephew of Samson Occum-whom Dartmouth men will remember as an Indian protege of Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth's pious founder. Nathan Hale is Holdfast's tutor. Among his friends and acquaintances: Daniel Boone, Tecumseh, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark...
...props in the way. A good many of the fur-wrapped natives in the Diamond Horseshoe will be there under the same grim or triumphal compulsion that gets them to church once a year for Easter services. A good many of the gallerygoers will clump up 119 steps like pious martyrs, sure that they are the only ones in the house that really like the stuff...