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...third possibility is that, being vain even as other men are vain, he will accept the inducements that are offered to him from every hand, will bestow an indiscriminate blessing upon whatever enterprise will ensure him the prestige and perquisites which he feels...
...when dress workers staged ten of the bloodiest strikes in New York history to organize the industry. In the late 19203 and early 1930s strikers and shop owners had fought in the streets with shivs and sawed-off pool cues. Knife-wielding Communists ripped and clubbed workers in a vain attempt to run them into a Red-led splinter group. But in 1932, Dubinsky moved up to the presidency of the parent garment union, the International Ladies' Garment Workers, forced out the Communists, rallied the divided unionists, won concessions from management and steered labor into calm waters...
Your Feb. 17 account of France's atrocities in Tunisia reads like a report on the rape of Hungary by Russia. U.N. sanctions against France are vain to hope for, but the U.S. and other true democratic nations should not condone murder, even when committed by our so-called allies...
Hard-boiled Premier Khalil, who has fended off both Egyptian and Russian attempts to penetrate his new nation, tried in vain to telephone Nasser, dispatched his Foreign Minister to Cairo, and finally, after a Cabinet meeting lasting until 3 a.m., cabled an urgent complaint to the United Nations Security Council accusing Egypt of plotting "aggression" and of organizing a "huge infiltration of Egyptian troops" (disguised, according to Sudanese sources, as camel traders and manganese miners). Said the complaint: "Since the Sudan is determined to defend its territory, the situation would result in a breach of the peace and, if uncontrolled...
...eight fragments failed to show up. Next day three more were gone. On Jan. 9 a single fragment spread its little ionosphere for Dr. Kraus to record. It appeared again on Jan. 10, but on Jan. 11 Dr. Kraus searched the sky in vain...