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...Boston. 583 voting delegates to the 130th annual meeting of the American Unitarian Association heard a report of a committee appointed last year to study the thorny question of whether Unitarians have any business making resolutions on non-church matters. "To abandon the practice now," the report decided, "could be interpreted as a move of caution or expediency ... in the present climate of opinion adverse to free speech, heretical views and diversity of opinion. " One of the "hazards" of being a Unitarian, according to the report, is that Unitarians believe in "work for the kingdom of God." and that kingdom...
Like almost everyone else in Washington, the Russian ambassador doubted that the Red government would last very long. On the advice of the U.S. State Department, he refused to recognize the new regime and refused also to abandon his mission. To each member of his staff, however, he gave the free choice of either returning home or remaining as part of the "embassy without a government." Karpovich, like all but one of the other representatives, decided to stay...
...bill still faced a hard floor fight. But it got a helping hand from Dwight Eisenhower, who traveled to New York for an appeal to some 1,400 newspaper executives. Said the President: "To abandon our program for the gradual reduction of unjustifiable trade barriers . . . would mean a retreat to economic nationalism and isolationism. It would constitute a serious setback to our hopes for global peace...
...only birds, but burros, rabbits, and ducks appear and disappear with Blackstone's aid. He has had to abandon, however, the most astounding of his stunts, the vanishing elephant. The beast was too big for road trips. A horse proved more mobile. With Blackstone in the saddle, the horse galloped into a tent which then collapsed. When the tent was removed, their stood the magician with the saddle in his hand. Years ago when he visited Cairo, the vanishing horse became a disappearing camel...
Actor Newton dares to play the lovable old rascal as no one since Wallace Beery would: that is to say, he blatheringly overplays him with the ear-flapping, eye-woggling, nose-swallowing abandon of a man who is trying, with both hands tied behind his back, to get a particularly persistent fly off his face. "Milk!" Newton splutters, staggering back, clutching wildly at his throat and shuddering like the plague. "I be pizened!" The way he walks, anybody would think he had at least twelve peg legs instead of one, and the way he talks, "Jim Oarkins" and "Trays-sher...