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...does natural law apply to some of the larger practical issues of the day? An example is the use of force, which, says Murray, baffles Protestant morality. (The "Eastern seaboard liberal," he says, at once abhors and adores power, since in the matrix of American Protestant culture "power is unconsciously regarded as Satanic.") Old-line Protestant ethics saw social morality as personal morality writ large, which led to such inappropriate questions as "How does one apply the Sermon on the Mount to foreign policy?" This failure to understand the difference between public and private morality, argues Murray, leads...
...light and voted intelligently and courageously. During his second term in the House, he advocated reducing economic aid to Europe and the Middle East (and incurred the terrible wrath of Harry Truman), not because of any ingrained isolationism-he has always been a committed, Eastern-seaboard internationalist-but out of the conviction that Western Europe and the Arab world should contribute more to their own recovery...
...Nominee Adlai Stevenson threw open the 1956 Democratic Convention for vice-presidential nominations, Kennedy plunged into a trial run. To his surprise, he came within a thin 38^ votes of defeating Tennessee's Estes Kefauver-corralling, along the way, a strong voting strength from the South, the Eastern Seaboard and his native New England. Kennedy's case was powerfully helped when Connecticut Democratic Boss John Bailey circulated a memo showing that Kennedy's Roman Catholicism would be a political asset to the ticket in the industrial states...
RAIL MERGERS are picking up steam. Illinois Central and Southern Railway are competing for control of the 5,696-mile Louisville & Nashville to strengthen their positions if ICC okays the pending merger of the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard. Southern Pacific asked ICC permission to take over the Western Pacific. One approved merger: Chicago & North Western takeover of the Minneapolis and St. Louis to form the second longest U.S. road (after the Santa...
...been three years since the Corporation voted to withdraw financial support from sailing and left the disinherited yachtsmen to pay their way to regattas along the Atlantic Seaboard. They have been two years of apathy and one of renewing interest...