Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Friday's Governor Dever "kidnapping" was in the same shady category. Admittedly the incident was unusual and humorous. Bur by bluffing the Governor of Massachusetts in such a manner, the mavericks deprived Dever of the respect and courtesy associated with his position. Besides this, the fake Democrats cheated dues-paying members of their single opportunity to see and hear, the man they will work for in the campaign...
Drawing a distinction between his kind of fight against Communism and Joe McCarthy's, Eisenhower warned against "violent vigilantism. To defend freedom," said he, "is-first of all -to respect freedom . . . That respect demands another, quite simple kind of respect-respect for the integrity of fellow citizens who enjoy their right to disagree with us. The right to challenge a man's judgment carries with it no automatic right to question his honor." (Joe McCarthy, on the platform, did not applaud these sentences-although the crowd...
...party, though his ineffectual resistance to Bevan at Morecambe cost him prestige. Herbert Morrison would continue on as Attlee's deputy leader in the House of Commons. "I will allow no bitterness to poison my soul," Morrison told the conference, in a moving speech which earned him renewed respect. The shock of the Bevan victory had already begun to soften...
...Eritrea should have practical advantages. Landlocked Ethiopia has the resources of soil and climate to become East Africa's breadbasket. Eritrea has better-trained labor and coastal ports on the Red Sea. The federation's success, said departing Commissioner Anze Matienzo pointedly, depends on Ethiopia's "respect for Eritrea's constitutional progress and autonomy...
...cover, the Saturday Evening Post usually runs paintings which depict imaginary characters in some folksy, whimsical or appealing phase of daily U.S. life. This week its readers got a start. The Post's cover was in the tradition in one respect: it was painted by Norman Rockwell, the artist who has done more Post covers than anybody else. But the cover was a portrait of a real person: Dwight David Eisenhower. Announced the pro-Eisenhower Post: it was the first time in the Post's 224-year history that it had devoted its whole cover to a picture...