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Weaving through the Holyoke Street blast, Vag clutched the paper in his pocket, and, reassured, kept on up the street. He remembered when the long, heavy envelope had arrived. He'd looked at it suspiciously, noticing the return address. Dimly, in the background, he'd heard martial music playing as he extracted, in order, a small card, a large, many-itemed form, and a snide little scrap of yellow paper. It was to this last that he'd addressed wary attention; it was closely printed with a series of crisp pronunciamentos, studded with "you will," "do not fail...
...imposing sentence, Judge Francis J. W. Ford said he could not understand how a man of his "background and intelligence could descend to the level of a common thief." He reprimanded him sharply for his "thefts from veterans or anyone else, so that he could keep up with him associates in the circles in which he moved...
...would depend, finally, upon what the U.S. earned. If good times were ahead, taxes would roll in and even the present high cost of government would be bearable. Before his budget went to Congress, Harry Truman sent up his economic report (required by the Employment Act of 1946) as background material...
...Abbot, Father Ambrose will be deeply concerned with the education of youth, always a chief objective of the Benedictines. But he is no blind supporter of traditional or classical training. His own background and experience are against that, and he believes that all Catholic education-for laity and clergy alike-should place more emphasis on social problems. Says he: "The big trouble in parochial schools is that the nuns never get out in the world, are unacquainted with social problems...
...open break with the Communist Party and expulsion of its members. Until Russian aims are brought into the open in moves amenable to the conservative American voting public, this pathway looms as the only expedient for left wing groups interested in their future. For no matter what the background of our difficulties with the Soviets, the mere presence of friction on the international scene will force voters on the large scale to shy from groups with Communist backing. This is the pure pragmatic approach. It skirts the ethics and polities involved in current affairs and comes up with the only...