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...Missouri rose. Necks craned in the galleries. Mr. Heflin prepared to receive a Voltairian scorching. Said Mr. Reed: "Mr. President, I do not know that we shall gain anything by prolonging a discussion of this kind. I am sorry it has occurred. So that I may remove all taint of suspicion that I speak from interested motives, I remark that I was born and reared in the Presbyterian faith. . . . I do not propose to interfere with the efforts of the Executive to protect the interests of the United States until and unless it becomes manifest that he is pursuing...
...McMahon of the United Textile Workers, who took charge of the strike last summer, after "Communist" Leader Albert Weisbord had withdrawn (TIME, Aug. 23), had dealt conciliatingly with Vice President Charles F. Johnson of the Botany Mills. They agreed that the workers might organize, provided they entertained no Communistic taint; that collective bargaining would be recognized; that no outside help would be hired until all strikers were placed; that the open shop system would prevail; that future disputes would be put to arbitration. Their principals-employers and workers approved their agreement last week; and more than 7,000 strikers immediately...
...once said, and wisely: "There is more Hoover in the Administration than any other one person." And what does Herbert Hoover typify? Economic goodliness, organizing skill, a harmless personality with neither pungent anecdotes nor the taint of scandal. And what does the Coolidge Administration typify? The same things...
Since the Roman Catholic Church does not sanction divorce the alternative of annulling the Duke's first marriage has two effects: 1) It removes any possible taint of ecclesiastical bigamy from his second marriage in Roman Catholic eyes and makes it possible for him to enter that Church. 2) It regularizes the second marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and sets at ease any qualms of her Roman Catholic husband...
...missing a single lecture, is deemed by Dean Pound to be "prima facie an undesirable student", and is threatened with expulsion. It is true that all hope is not lost. Perfect behavior on the part of the "undesirable" may avert the consequences of his grave misconduct. But the taint of the original sin remains forever...