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...piled on top of all other U. S. taxes. Chairman Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee delivered the official excoriation, using the following adjectives: unequal, unjust, unsound, fanatical, intolerable, inequitable, cockeyed, crackpot. Dr. Townsend's solace: three years ago the House had him sentenced for contempt (Franklin Roosevelt pardoned him) ; now his planacea put members on a piping political pan. Bob Doughton & Co. hastened next day to vote, in Committee, to recommend raising from $15 to $20 the maximum monthly handout by the Treasury to oldsters whose States pension them...
...influence." Pondering this contradiction, Professor Winspear next noticed that The Clouds was produced in 423 B.C., when Socrates was 47 and Plato a child of six. He concluded that between 423 and about 400 B.C., when Plato knew him, Socrates changed, and that young Plato, who had a high contempt for the rabble, chose to overlook 70-year-old Socrates' past...
Meanwhile, thousands of Jugoslav military reservists called to the colors as a defense measure, marched through the countryside shouting contempt of Hitler and Mussolini...
Perhaps Herr Schöttle will hold contempt for the views of a Jew. However, I always did have respect for Hitler. He rebuilt a desolate nation out of ashes, but he forgot one thing, THE FOUNDATION...
...They bring chaos and disunity into sovereign nations and then seize and dismember them. They send their agents to spy upon us. They organize Bunds to spread their vicious doctrines in strident contempt for our Democracy and its institutions...