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...University of Miami when it expelled a student for failing to make the football team. Mr. Jordan's job is to coach the football team, and with his performance of that duty we have no quarrel. He has already achieved his first objective to substitute respect for the contempt with which the public regarded the Harvard team only a year...
...Instead of begging and bribing our allies to support policies . . . let us develop the courageous, firm leadership which commands the respect of our allies, not their contempt...
...American language the word "politician" calls forth contempt and distrust, and such connotations grew, in 1951, with disclosures of corruption and shoddy politics in high places of the U.S. This growing contempt and distrust came at an unfortunate time; in 1951, many of the gravest problems facing the U.S. were political. Churchill, without a trace of shame, calls himself a politician. He means that by aptitude, training and choice, his business in life is to deal with problems of man and state, and state and state...
...State House leaks have made its contents widely known, and its release is no longer a significant issue so far as the problem of Massachusetts industry is concerned. However, the arguments have gone on so long that neither side can back out. The Republicans have moved to file contempt charges against DelMonte, and Dever has announced that he will fully pardon his Labor Commissioner of any penalty that the Senate may propose...
...Does he deserve well of the republic, or should he be treated with aversion and contempt...