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...Federal Council of Churches presented to President Truman a seven-point program for "averting war without yielding sound democratic principles." Highlights: no complacency, hysteria or fatalism about war; economic, social and moral programs to combat Communism, rather than military strategy; renewed vigor of the churches in testifying to God's love and Christian fellowship...
Uncomfortable Man. Taft himself, stumping the state with the vigor of a Crusader, spoke bluntly and honestly, as always. He also betrayed a personal sense of outrage and irritation. But even so he did not stir audiences. At times fewer than two or three dozen people collected to hear him speak from courthouse steps; he seemed uncomfortable as he stepped forward to shake hands. When he spoke at Cadiz, a knot of roughneck strip miners booed, and called "Throw...
Then came the '47 floods, and although little action followed, the battle between the Pick-Sloan group and the MVA-ers increased in vigor. One prominent MVA man said scornfully that "assigning the United States Army engineers to the job of controlling floods . . . is precisely like sending Typhoid Mary to stop a typhoid epidemic." Now, with a stingy Congress and international distractions, Pick's 10-year estimate on Missouri River control should probably be changed to 100 years. And MVA, for all its local support, is apparently on the shelf for a long time to come. the only thing that...
...part of a long-range program designed to wipe out the entire family. There is some confusion as to whether the rancher actually intended the capture, and this suffices to prolong the revenge for three acts, while the merits of the case are aired with much vigor but little consequences. The trouble is that the actors all get more worked up than the audience. This reviewer, at least, could not force himself to look upon the various murders, either in their plotted or their consummated aspects, as undesirable, although it was obvious from the shouting and declaiming taking place...
Limited Help. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, campaigning (by airplane) up & down Italy, left no doubt that Rome's show of force was no empty gesture. With unexpected vigor, he exhorted Italians not to let themselves be scared away from the polls by Communist rough stuff. His theme: either all will vote freely, or none will vote at all. Shivering in a chill spring wind that swept across the ruins of Monte Cassino, he cried: "Form a bulwark! . . . Defend Italy. . . . Vote for Italy. . . ." In Sardinia, before stocking-capped old peasants and natty coal miners fresh from their showers, he said...