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President Harnwell was being unjust to the Class of 1960. ("Loyal Penn Men tried and true, '60 leads the Red and Blue" runs their class cheer.) Actually the painting which graced the sidewalk outside his office that morning was the work of the Spirit Committee, a civic body that arranges pep rallies and other patriotic events...
...Governor LeRoy Collins. Now she rose quietly in the tense room to request one. "I wish," she began, "you would now discuss this in my presence." When the commissioners were silent, Dr. Coggins put a second question: "Could it be that you think what you did was unjust, illegal, undemocratic or unchristian? Is that why you don't speak? Why are you such cowards...
...physician greater than Deborah Coggins was once criticized for eating with tax collectors and sinners. I am not attempting to make any irreverent comparisons, but I sincerely believe that if you fire this girl today for the reason you have in mind, you will be doing an evil and unjust act, the memory of which will follow you to your graves...
...young Canadian labor-relations expert named W. L. Mackenzie King (who became his lifelong friend and longtime Prime Minister of Canada), found out about company towns, came away criticizing paternalism as "antagonistic to democracy." Thereafter J.D.R. Jr. consistently sympathized with labor, just as consistently characterized unenlightened management as "unwise, unjust, antisocial, and hence bad business...
...Stubborn Rich. What Labor proposed to do about unequal cultural enrichment, Towards Equality did not say. It left little doubt, however, about how it proposed to tackle "unjust" inequalities in wealth and income. In loving detail the pamphlet discussed the relative merits of a tax on expenditure rather than on income-Gaitskell has long been distressed by "the refusal of well-to-do taxpayers to react to high taxation [of income] by cutting down their standard of living"-and of collecting inheritance taxes in property rather than in cash, a device which would have the advantage of depriving the heirs...