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When Representative Harold H. Velde announced that he might investigate churches, the indignation from churchmen was, as might be expected, righteous. Religious leaders reasonably maintained that the publicity of such an investigation would only undermine the position of churches at a critical time...
...publisher (1898-1943) of Argentina's La Prensa; in Buenos Aires. A towering, pince-nezed aristocrat, he made the newspaper founded by his father into one of the world's great dailies, equaled only by the New York Times in international coverage. He wrote his own, firmly righteous editorials, personally tongue-lashed employees who fell below his lofty standards and exiled them from the office for a week (with full pay). Editor Paz was so sure that La Prensa could never publish an untruth that ten years after it erroneously reported the death of a famed Spanish baritone...
...Orleans. Last week, as the city picked its new school superintendent-James F. Redmond, longtime second in command to Chicago's Herold Hunt-it no longer had to apologize for its bad schools. The New Orleans school system is now booming as never before-largely because of the righteous wrath of the woman reporter from the States...
...picture. Undoubtedly the current issue is not simply a clash between academic innocents and villainous politicians. Yet, it is more than merely "the result of the misdirection of the efforts of sincere men." Even assuming that Dorgan et al. are sincere, there are few less open to reason than "righteous" fanatics whatever their locus on the political spectrum. We are not at all convinced that Messrs. Dorgan and Robertson are unrepresentative of the unintelligent approach of at least some of the importantly placed leaders in the investigatory parade. In this sense, the forum of the other evening may have served...
...restless South Africa, where a stern and self-righteous government is deliberately widening the gulf between races, violent passions were producing more & more violent demands. Nationalist Prime Minister Daniel Malan last week asked for dictatorial emergency powers from Parliament...