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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article on Congressman Halleck (R., Ind.) demonstrates what can be done by a man with conviction and know-how in spite of the odds. Let's get behind the President and insist upon fiscal responsibility by our national legislators...
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Upon the two Republicans who deserted their party will be visited the deserved condemnation of their countrymen. If their votes had gone the other way, the Admiral would have won confirmation...
...force, perhaps led to dozens of arrests, or might have set European mobs to rioting against Moslems in reprisal for terrorist outrages. But last month, an hour after the grenade blast, the crowds on the Rue d'Isly were as thick as ever; most Europeans looked upon the wreckage and passed by, as if it had simply been a ghastly accident. And this changed attitude is not all on the European side. A month before, a terrorist was spotted before he could explode a bomb in a crowded square; he fled with a mob in hot pursuit...
Southern Baptists, Arkansas-born Dr. Smith pointed out, have 2,600 churches in areas which 20 years ago were looked upon as Northern's private preserve-mostly in the Midwest and the Southwest. And it is in just these areas that Southern Baptism has been growing fastest. "Although the overall gain in membership for Southern Baptists in 1958 was only 2.7%, our gains in the 'invaded' states were from five to ten times as large as the average...
Dusting off a 66-year-old Georgia Supreme Court opinion ("No newspaper has a right while a case is under investigation to comment upon its merits," etc.), Judge Pye then held both Atlanta papers in contempt for "interfering with the business of the court." Said the judge coldly: "The amount of the fine should take into consideration that the offenses were calculated, designed, deliberate and repeated. This corporation [i.e., the papers] takes the position that all that which it here did was its absolute right and privilege to do. It has no such right, and it must be taught...