Word: system
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smokers; that abnormal addiction to tobacco smoking is present to a highly significant degree in male coronary victims of all ages; that these facts and similar ones for peptic ulcer are most likely based on the well-known toxicity of nicotine for nerve cells of the automatic (involuntary) nervous system controlling these organs...
...trying Giuliano under U.S. law, and a Norfolk judge has agreed to act as adviser to all concerned. In preparing the evidence in the Giuliano case the seventh-graders have had to give reports on trial by jury, the origin of English law, habeas corpus, the courts and jury system of Connecticut, and other related subjects. At present, according to Mr. Anderson, the status of the case is as follows...
...Last week the commandants of the three Western powers pitched in to help the Russians get an agreement. The strikers are demanding all of their pay in West marks because most of them live and work in the Western sectors. The Russians, who control the entire city rail transit system, have offered 60% of the workers' pay in West marks. Last week Ernst Reuter, Socialist Mayor of (West) Berlin, appeared at a strike meeting and offered to add 15% from city funds to the Russian offer. He told the strikers that the U.S., British and French commandants wanted them...
...Blanshard's unwillingness or inability to look to the root of some of the strange anomalies which he merely touches in scanning American Catholicism. Were he to investigate "the core of faith" which Catholic liberals cling to "even when they look with repugnance on the autocratic ecclesiastical system imposed upon the people by the priests," he might gain valuable insight into the more important non-political motives of the Church. As it is, his disdain for the hierarchy blinds the balance of his insight so that he never separates the mystic from the mystigogue, or the sacrament from the sacrilege...
...Church ideal, the state which restricts its functions to the maintenance of order while subsidizing the Church in its control of education and morals. In America the strategy involves threats of boycott to offending newspapers, magazines, movie producers and distributors, and radio stations; establishment of a separate school system and attempts to infiltrate and control the public school system; and attempts to force legislative bodies, by the customary pressure group means, to impose the Roman Catholic view on a disagreeing but non-militant citizenry...