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...Decent Manner. Soviet Russia's ambitions are the same today, only more so. "I do not doubt," says Byrnes "that their ultimate goal is to dominate, in one way or another, all of Europe...
...This law is going to be used as a weapon-and a permanent weapon-against trade unions and their members," he declared, adding that its provisions would in effect nullify "whatever decent living conditions have been obtained up to this time under collective bargaining between employer and employee...
...earlier times, it was a spirit that terrified decent citizens. Beating up the night watch was for centuries an accepted sport. Breaking windows and starting brawls for the fun of it was standard fun for young men of good family. Up to the first years of the 19th Century, wrote Burke, "the Prince [later George IV] was an example of the men of his time; gamesters, drunkards, haunters of the lowest dens, careering about the streets at midnight . . . and having with it all a number of accomplishments, informed minds, sound scholarship, and taste in literature...
...Roland Culver), who believes in letting sleeping memories lie. Before he can get her back, MacMurray, who hardly seems up to it, has to shoot holes in a couple of heavies; Ava has to get a bang on the head to restore her memory; and Culver has to turn decent and tell her not to worry about him. The British authorities are not in the least concerned about anything except getting Boy & Girl together and out of the country on the earliest possible plane...
...Decent Chaps. In Newark, stickup men robbed George B. Chandless Jr. of a $900 payroll, kindly paused in their getaway to hand him back his chocolate bar and licorice stick...