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...people like to read stories and books that reek with sin, that shame the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, that shock and insult high heaven? It is because millions in America are honeycombed with impurity, vice, adultery and moral rot. When they read popular books and magazines that sanction this . . . they feel less guilty about their own sins...
Labor was the hottest issue, and Harry Truman handled it with gloves. He asked for legislation to outlaw jurisdictional strikes and their secondary boycotts. Since even most labor leaders want the same thing, that was like coming out against sin. He wanted better federal mediation machinery to stop strikes, and increased social legislation to "alleviate the causes of workers' insecurity...
Twelve fighting-mad Protestant ministers of Steubenville, Ohio decided that the only way to deal with their city's sin was literally to go gunning for it. They asked for permission to turn themselves and their aides into a pistol-packing vice squad, pledged to a "dirty war" on "the indecent elements which are attacking the very citadel of city life...
...things we have to sell won't take the place of the Ten Commandments. . . . Copy can be casually optimistic, but no more. . . . National ads . . . are all loused up with overexcited, overeager, overhappy faces. .. . Another mortal sin is the four-color food spreads [of] so-called salads of marshmallows and sliced pineapple trapped in a bed of mint-green gelatine topped with maraschino cherries. I am certain these monstrous double-trucks have set American cookery back 50 years...
...Mistress Mine. Lunt & Fontanne, still their incomparably cavorting selves as a British Cabinet Minister and a widow living in gay, sumptuous sin (TIME...