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...election was a telegram from the man he was soon to succeed. Wired Harry Truman: "Congratulations on your overwhelming victory. The 1954 budget must be presented to Congress before January 18 . . . You should have a representative meet with the Director of the Budget immediately." Then came a typical Truman slur: "The Independence will be at your disposal if you still desire to go to Korea...
...Congratulations on your May 26 reporting of MacArthur's slur at generals in the White House ... I never cease to marvel at the many facets of the MacArthur personality, but this one really takes the cake. What makes Mac think he is an exception to the old political axiom-that generals make poor presidents? It smacks of an inflated ego, plus a childish fit of pique, i.e., "if I can't have it, neither...
...going to refer to us as a "fundamentalist organization," then by all rights you should refer to the National Council [of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.] as a liberal or modernist organization. I have been ministering here in Collingswood 18 years, and we regret your slur upon the Bible Presbyterian Church of Collingswood ... I am a minister in good and regular standing in this church. To refer to me as "a deposed minister" is contrary to the facts and the records . . . CARL MCINTIRE Bible Presbyterian Church Collingswood...
...looser beside his bulldog jaws. But his step was still springy, and under his beetling brows his eyes could still smolder and twinkle with their old fire. During the last years of his eclipse, old friends and enemies alike had noticed in Churchill's speech a tendency to slur and meander, but in the heat of this latest campaign, with victory once more within his grasp, the old leader gave no sign of such deterioration...
With this statement Griswold reflected the opinions of many of the Law School Faculty; it was the idea of Law students not being considered graduate students rather than the possible effects of the ruling which disturbed them. "It's a slur against the profession," said Wesley E. Bevins, assistant dean of the Law School...