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Pearson also pictured Batista as a staunch foe of Communism, but neglected to mention that the President had legalized the Communist Party and won its support in the 1940 elections before finally outlawing the party. When Pearson wrote that "not even an armed sentry paced outside" the presidential palace-which is guarded night and day by up to six sentries in plain view-Diario National Columnist Luis Conte Aguero exploded: "Too ridiculous to comment." Although intensive security precautions are taken to protect Batista wherever he goes, Pearson wrote that the President "had no secret service" at a political rally...
Died. John D. Dingell, 61, Democratic Representative from Michigan since 1933, staunch supporter of New and Fair Deal policies (he waged a twelve-year losing fight for a compulsory national health insurance bill); of a heart attack; in Washington...
...could have agreed to reunification, provided that the Germans agreed to get out of NATO. This was the hidden bait in the Kremlin's invitation to Adenauer. The Russians knew how powerful in German public opinion is the drive to reunite their country. Any German political leader less staunch than Der Alte might have been pressured into it. But Adenauer's loyalty to the Western alliance is so crystal-clear that the Russians did not explicitly ask him to budge. Nor could any successor to Adenauer, less loyal, inherently, to the concept of Western unity, afford to disregard...
...Republican Party lacks color, so seldom do you hear of one of its stalwarts . . . fleeing the States like Bill O'Dwyer or going to jail like Mayor Curley. What have they ever contributed to compare with good old Mayor Hague, Ed Crump, Tom Pendergast, el al., or good staunch Democrats like Harold Ickes, Henry Wallace, Alger Hiss, Lamar Caudle ? . . . Even the President's son is a reactionary-he foolishly got rank in the Army by going to West Point and being a Second Looy...
...obstacle to convictions in antitrust and railroad rebate cases. Recalls Williams: "In 1908, the U.S. Supreme Court analyzed the privilege at some length and concluded that as a human right it was definitely second class . . . The opinion was written by Justice Moody, an extremely able judge and a staunch 'progressive,' appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt, whose Attorney General he had been. Undoubtedly, Justice Moody's views reflected to some extent the indignation of the intellectuals of that day with the invocation of the amendment by corporation officials in antitrust and rebate cases. The opinion continually belittles...