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...Kansas City, the temperature climbed to 90 degrees, in Boston to 96.2, in Dallas to 98, in El Paso to 103. With the end of the Democratic Convention, and a clear choice of candidates before them, most citizens felt surfeited with politics and the vehement sound of political oratory...
...when Mary Stuart, Queen of the Scots, brought her court to Edinburgh, Knox cried: "The preachers were wondrous vehement in reprehension of all manner of vice, which then began to abound; and especially avarice, oppression of the poor, excess, riotous cheer, banqueting, immoderate dancing, and whoredom that thereof ensues." Knox titled one famous pamphlet "The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women...
Public Record. As a Senator since 1938-first as a vehement, minority critic of the New Deal and later as majority boss on domestic issues-he has probably declared himself on more issues than any man in Congress. His outstanding political characteristic is his insistence on strict legal procedure. He criticized the Nürnberg trials on the grounds that they were ex post facto judgments, and therefore violations of American law. He has seldom altered his course because of public opinion. He calls himself a conservative liberal; his political trademark is: "Go Slow." He is hostile to Big Government...
...vehement protest against the recent resolution by the National Student Association's staff committee to sever relations with the International Union of Students was registered last night by Lawrence M. Jaffa 2D, chairman of the NSA's Northern New England Regional Division, and a member of the four-man board appointed in December to consider NSA-IUS affiliation...
Part of Tom Dewey's campaign strategy will be a sustained attack on the Administration. He began the attack this week at a point where the Administration is particularly vulnerable-its policy in Asia. Speaking in his most vehement public prosecutor style at a Columbia University Law School dinner, he charged the Administration with failure in China, where "Communist world conquest is furthest advanced." Said Dewey...