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...formidable string of prejudices, e.g., against ill-natured satire, preaching sermons, "bandying small talk with dull people," "jesting and flippancy on sacred topics," negligence on the part of college servants. He wrote dozens of indignant letters to the newspapers-once, at least, under the surprising pseudonym of "Dynamite." A staunch Tory, he liked nothing better than to lie awake making corrosive anagrams on the detested name of Liberal William Ewart Gladstone, e.g., "Wild agitator! Means well...
...week's hardest blow came from the U.S. Army in its charge that McCarthy and Roy Cohn, his committee counsel, had conducted one of the most outrageous operations in the history of political pressure cooking. Before the week was out, even such staunch conservative Republicans as Michigan's Senator Charles Potter and Illinois' Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen were throwing verbal brickbats at McCarthy...
...good example of the shift was an editorial which appeared one morning last week in Eugene Pulliam's Arizona Republic, formerly a staunch defender of McCarthy: "The political obituary of . . . McCarthy . . . is being written in the news stories that greet-and disgust—Americans almost every morning these days . . . Here is a man who had a great opportunity for service to his nation and who is spoiling it miserably...
...credits piling up in every continent, pfennig-pinching Finance Minister Fritz Shäffer announced sweeping tax reductions that will enable Germans themselves to buy more of the Volkswagen, cameras and other good things that their factories are exporting to every nook & cranny of the Western world. A staunch free-enterpriser, Shäffer believes that a capitalist economy should be kind to capitalists. His tax cuts especially gave relief to 1) heavy industry (corporation taxes were reduced from 60% to 45%*) and 2) West Germany's crop of postwar millionaires (taxes on incomes over $600,000 a year...
...ground that it was "dangerous to change parties in mid-Depression"); yet he is a devout Wilsonian ("Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom principles were the major philosophical stamp on my thought") and a registered Democrat in Fairfax County, Va., where he lives. He is a lifelong internationalist, a staunch supporter of the League of Nations and the U.N., has backed the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine; but he sometimes speaks with an accent that isolationists applaud. He also strongly backs Senator McCarthy, but has condemned McCarthy's "indefensible" slander of General Marshall...