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...hearing Harris County's case and 30 others much like it, the state committee was ready to act. By that time Chairman Bullington, who had said he would conduct "right & just" hearings, expressed a different view to a reporter. Said he: "They'll barrelhouse 'em through. Whoever controls the committee can always barrelhouse 'em through. You'll see, it'll be the same at Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Steamroller in Texas | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

Crisis of Conscience? "I have sometimes been asked at this point: What went on in the minds of those Americans, all highly educated men, that made it possible for them to betray their country? Did none of them suffer a crisis of conscience? The question presupposes that whoever asks it has still failed to grasp that Communists mean exactly what they have been saying for a hundred years: they regard any government that is not Communist, including their own, merely as the political machine of a class whose power they have organized expressly to overthrow by all means, including violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Publican & Pharisee | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...fact that federal government could use the money to aid education is really irrelevant. Whoever gets the money will use it for governmental purposes--Texas uses its oil money to support its public schools. The amount of money going to the respective governments will be the same, for the owner of oil land gets a standard one-eight royalty. More important that the possible federal uses of the money is that state finances are currently based on this income. To take it away would force states into a sudden readjustment of their tax systems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAME-CALLING | 4/9/1952 | See Source »

...Whoever says that all this doesn't have anything to do with Emperor Frederick and the astrological theme-they are dragged out from time to time, like grandfather's diaries, to amuse the intellectual visitors-is quite right, and doesn't understand the first thing about contemporary historical novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love Without Commas | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

Birds in Hand. In Bogota, Colombia, teaching three parrots to say three phrases paid off for Leovigildo Perez when he found three would-be burglars standing in the patio of his house, their hands held high, while the birds screamed, "Hands up," "Don't move," "Whoever moves a step will be killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 7, 1952 | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

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