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...only thing that's over. The world, as most of today's seniors know, is full of people who have agreed on orthodox ways of living and thinking, and who make it their chief concern to see that everyone follows them without a quibble. They stand ready to punish the unorthodox with varying degrees of severity, and continually join battle with any cases of non-conformity which protect and nourish the rebels. The most important sanctuaries for unorthodoxy are the colleges and universities, and in the past few years, many of them have been cocreed and frightened into obedience...
...Well, that being so," said the judge, "it seems to me it reduces itself to an absurdity because on that theory you couldn't punish anybody for such a conspiracy unless the Government was just about to be overthrown, and then it would be too late...
...little boy who found his allergy useful against his parents was 6½-year-old Jeff. He told the investigators: "When they punish me and whip me I want to slam the door and break things and run away and get out. But I can't ... I can't do nothing to my father and mother. I just can't. I just want to get out. But I can't. I get sick. Then my mother brings me stuff and my daddy does, too, to make me better." Eddie, going-on-five, was gleeful when...
Vice President Alben Berkley made a realistic admission, a luxury that an ex-Senator can afford. Caught between trains in Indianapolis, he explained: "I'm on my way to punish an audience with a speech." Meanwhile, in Washington, grandchildren Alben II, 4, and Dorothy Anne, 6, took advantage of grandpa's absence to check over his old Senate desk, and made a few marginal notes on his copy of the Congressional Record...
Dave Beck not only dominates western labor; he dominates great chunks of business as well. He sees himself as a kind of self-appointed price-wage czar. With deadpan audacity he has used his power to prevent cutthroat competition, to punish price cutters, and to help firms with teamster contracts make a safe margin of profit...