Word: virtuous
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Jacobs succeeded in signing up Joe Louis. Whereupon Roxborough, Black & Blackburn, assisted by the Hearst press, began a promotional buildup. Because they knew whites (especially those who buy fight tickets) like Negro fighters virtuous, and remembering the stigma that still clung to colored fighters as a result of Jack Johnson's flamboyant wenching when he was world's heavyweight champion (1908-15), Louis' brain trust decided that their boy was going to be pure...
...With virtuous vigor Franklin Roosevelt last week vetoed a $320,000,000 defense-highway appropriation bill. Reason : he had asked for only $125,000,000 to correct critical deficiencies in the strategic network of military highways; pork-hungry Congress had blown up the measure; worse, had changed the bill's idea. The $320,000,000 was not to be distributed according to defense needs but by the hoary Federal-aid formula - based on population, area, etc. The Senate happily overrode the President's veto, 57-to-19, well over the required two-thirds majority. The House just barely...
Mildred Dunn, pretty, 21-year-old Chicago divorcée, is either the most virtuous, the most ingenious, the most devilishly coy or the most imaginative woman to appear in a law court in many a day. Last week, to an astonished Chicago court, she testified in her sister's divorce case that last year she had frustrated her brother-in-law, a radio engineer, in almost 200 attempts to rape...
...belief that the voice of the people is the Voice of God-has hardened into a dogma, which in his heart, he no longer believes. What he believes is that Virtue was always in the minority.' " The next step would be a police state to enforce the virtuous minority's will oh the unvirtuous majority...
Robespierre never took that step. In keeping the minority virtuous, he had purged so many revolutionary bigwigs that the little wigs, in self-defense decided to purge him. On the 9th Thermidor (July 27, 1794), his comrades outlawed Robespierre, seized and bound him. The fallen dictator lay on the floor of the Commune, his jaw shattered by a poorly aimed bullet...