Word: un
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best, is the finest creature nature so far has produced, with the exception of a Chinaman at his best." But much as he loves Englishmen, he loves debunking more. Says he: "I don't expect ever to discover Truth, but I do believe that I can uncover un-Truth...
...such is a congenital foe of Fascism. . . . Russia . . . was forced to deal with Hitler in its own way. . . . [The Living Church] calls upon me to 'sever all relations' with those bright enough to understand what is going on, suggesting that I am falling for 'their essentially un-Christian propaganda.' Well, I think I know un-Christian propaganda when I see it and there is rather more of it, in this war as in the last, coming from Christian pulpits and editorial offices of Church papers than from Union Square...
...results of so short a try-out as the one last night were necessarily un-conclusive, but the new plan will be given further tryouts...
Next campaign step was to un-prettify handsome, snow-crested Mr. McNutt. Mr. McHale ordered new pictures-stern-visaged photos to de-emphasize the platinum hair, the toothpaste smile. With the rest of his candidate's person Mr. McHale was well enough satisfied, and Paul McNutt continued to go about with baggy, overlong pants draping his slightly bowed legs, unshined shoes on his slightly pigeon-toed feet-an appearance politically pleasing to an electorate which traditionally distrusts the too-snappy dresser...
With the hunt in full swing, little chance for opposition exists to Dies' request for an additional $500,000. But before his Committee runs wild Congress would do well to apply its checks. "Un-Americanism" is too broad a word for safety. If Congress confined his investigations specifically to groups engaged in overthrowing the government, more facts and less sensation would result. Stripped of his power to prowl at will, Dies would soon find that the sum-total of his scares add up to little. Un-Americanism becomes a ghost story when told in installments before bedtime. But collected...