Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What attracts so many learned men and women to such a murderous and destructive cause? sometimes it is frustration. Sometimes it is greed or love of power. Sometimes it is misplaced idealism. But ask them. See if they can give you a good reason for having faith in Communism or any of its works...
Certainly not. People who demand freedom to teach Communism are demanding the right to teach murder, robbery, revolution, treachery, and disaster. They cannot justify any such demands on any grounds of moral law, morals, common sense, or reason...
...Nevertheless Your Majesty must have fixed times and appointments?" Said the King: "Of course I must, as in every big business; otherwise everything gets confused. Sometimes I work late, but when one has a charming wife and charming kids, there is no reason for complaint...
...they picked their own conductor, a bright, energetic young localite named Eugene Linden. While the old Seattle Symphony's socialite directors screamed "musical mobsters," the new orchestra made music merrily-and successfully-though most of Seattle's mink and 75?-cigar set boycotted the concerts. One reason for the success (and the boycott) was a tall, bosomy woman named Cecilia Schultz, whom the musicians had picked to carry their flag and manage their money...
...risk of being distinguished . . . She should join the D.A.R. to show she has ancestors, and then a good proletariat organization ... to show that ancestors don't matter . . . She must keep her home open for the sake of public relations, and her mouth shut for the same reason...