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...domestic foes. ¶ The U.S. got a big Churchillian bouquet, and a homily on its past mistakes. "Had the U.S. taken before the First World War, or between the wars, the same interest and made the same exertions and run the same risks to preserve peace and uphold freedom which, I thank God, she is doing now, there might never have been a first war, and there would certainly never have been a second. With [America's] mighty aid, I have a sure hope that there will not be a third...
...cargo ships have been engaged in traffic with Red China, and some of the tankers, using underpaid foreign crewmen, have underbid U.S.-owned tankers enough to knock U.S. seamen out of jobs. Admiral Burger expects to seize about 75 ships before he is done and, if the courts uphold him, sell them over again...
...Vienna woods rather than to be talked about by learned doctors, and all seemed well with the world. But Vienna's Dr. Sigmund Freud was gloomy: two heretics, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler, had rebelled against the Freudian tenets. In this crisis, six loyal disciples solemnly undertook to uphold the straight gospel, and to each, Freud presented a jewel. That was in 1912, and of the select six, only one survives: Ernest Jones, 74, a spry, Homburg-hatted little Welshman* whom Freud called the greatest psychoanalyst in the English-speaking world...
Lawrence College trustees called Pusey back as president primarily because of his leading part in the curriculum innovations at Wesleyan. Since its founding in 1847, Lawrence had put its emphasis on a broad inclusive education, and Pusey, then a rising educator of 37, was certain to uphold the tradition...
...Regents Uphold...