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...Coming as and when it did, Whittaker Chambers' sacrifice had an incalculable value -if only to set the record straight for some of our "highschool liberals" that have been rampant since 1932. Never did any man write with such righteous lucidity. Fie on those who would measure his abasement in dollars & cents...
Despite the fact that the Senate Agriculture Committee has brought many of these shortages to light, self-righteous Secretary Brannan has not changed his mind about the investigations. Said he at week's end: "I just don't understand the reason for proceedings like this...
...righteous clamor, outraged desk-thumping and shocked eye-rolling, nothing quite equals the U.S. Congress in those ood, occasional moments when it feels that its honor has been impugned. Last week members of the House hit the ceiling so hard that it seemed for a while they would have to be scraped off, en masse. The Congressmen believed they were being accused by one of their own number of being drunks and spies...
...strong objections to the form the course Social Science 111 was conducted, not because I agree with him but because it indicates that there is someone with an independent spirit who takes his trouble to check up on his teachers. However, I don't believe that his self righteous "vomiting feeling in my stomach" is justified by the statistics he has or by the opinions he holds...
...Hero. His amnesty proposal provoked the most serious opposition. Self-righteous Communists denounced it as "immoral"; Gaullist Deputy André Diethelm called it "a pact with the devil." Pinay fought back. From his notes in a big cardboard folder he drew some startling statistics. Example: French peasants and the petit bourgeois have hoarded more than 15 times as much gold as there is in the Bank of France. The obvious reasons: 1) Frenchmen distrust their own paper currency, which seems to buy less every day; 2) many wealthy Frenchmen have avoided paying taxes for so long that they no longer...