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...true," he said, "that the request for an oath is per se a violation of academic freedom. To 98 per cent of the faculty a statement disavowing membership in the Communist Party is like a statement against sin, and 100 per cent have cheerfully taken an oath to support the democratic Constitutions of both the nation and state. It is the height of absurdity to compare [as some of the objectors have done] an oath forswearing membership in a conspiratorial antidemocratic organization with an oath supporting the dictatorship of Hitler or Mussolini . . . Some hysteria-mongers to the contrary notwithstanding, this...
...Unpardonable Sin. Then came the last straw. Johnson was reported to be hobnobbing with Maine's Republican Senator Owen Brewster and feeding him with ammunition to be fired against Acheson. In Harry Truman's code, political double-decking is the unpardonable sin...
...most cheering events for the people of these United States would be a general acknowledgment of ignorance and a confession of sin by our leaders. Is there no one who has the grace to humbly confess his part in the events which led us to this place of trouble...
...life Lana takes for her own begins in Kansas, soon moves to Manhattan where she becomes U.S. model No. 1. But there is a gap in her life, and Ray Milland, a married mining engineer, comes along to fill it. After they have lived for three months in sin (but with utter devotion, of course), Milland tells her that his wife is an invalid and is on her way to New York. Lana hits the bottle, can't sleep, demands a showdown with Milland's loving wife (Margaret Phillips) and finds she cannot go through with it. Bravely...
...Malik's resolution on Greece, Jebb said: "For the representative of a country which maintains millions of its own compatriots in slave labor camps ... to denounce other governments for alleged misdemeanors as regards political prisoners is just about as nauseating a spectacle as that of Satan rebuking sin...