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...ambassador to Persia from 1946 to 1948, George Allen had served in another trouble spot during a troubled time, with conspicuous success. Recalled to Washington in 1948, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (i.e., propaganda chief) and took over the job of giving vigor and consistency to the quavering Voice of America. The U.S.S.R. gave him the firmest recognition of his work; it put more than 200 stations to the job of jamming the Voice, has not yet succeeded in fully muffling its programs...
Curley, personally, gives the appearance of the utmost refinement. In his younger days, he was a very handsome man; today, at 75 he is jowled but in his face remains most of the vigor of his younger self. You stop and think if the stories about his being on his deathbed when he was in jail at Danbury in 1946 have any truth in them. A capable conversationalist, Curley can talk on almost any subject with the facility of a specialist, the gift of a retentive memory stands by him well. From a small amount of reading, he is able...
Freak Beaks. On paper, his work looks simple. A hybrid chicken is merely the offspring of a mating between two different strains which have been carefully inbred for generations. This offspring inherits all the favorable characteristics of his purebred ancestors as well as a mysterious extra something called "hybrid vigor": a phenomenal capacity for growth and performance. Actually, the breeder may run through hundreds of combinations before he hits a "nick"-trade slang for a good hybrid. Wallace's nick didn't come until 1942, after six years of tedious experimentations. In one year, he had to throw...
...Commission said: "State laws requiring special oaths for teachers, or laying down detailed prescriptions for the school curriculum, or establishing uniform tests and criteria of loyalty impair the vigor of local school autonomy and thus do harm to an important safeguard of freedom in education...
...Spellman's polemic vigor has been matched by the high glee of the thousands of big and little men who have reaffirmed, for all the world to know, their support of the First Amendment. "We must have separation of the Church and State," they cry--entirely ignoring the finer points of the dispute...