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Perhaps there is nothing reprehensible about writing a book claiming to support and to have long supported a foreign policy against which one has always voted and continues to vote. Possibly it is out of order to complain that Taft's last campaign for the Senate was run in flagrant defiance of the laws regulating contributions and expenditures, even though Taft is the loudest howler for honesty, efficiency, and economy in government...
Within hours, the A.M.A.'s bigwigs began to act as though they had never heard of the plan before. Snapped Surgeon John W. Cline, the A.M.A.'s pushing, politicking president: "Another flagrant proposal to play politics with the medical welfare of the American people . . . Brazen misuse of defense emergency funds for a program of political propaganda, designed to influence legislation and the outcome of the 1952 election." Wisconsin's Dr. Gunnar Gundersen, an A.M.A. trustee who had halfway accepted a bid to serve on the commission, backed out hastily, saying it was designed "as an instrument...
...Flagrant recruiting, proselyting and subsidizing" among big-time college football powers. Among the chief offenders: Maryland, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Southern Methodist (which awards 154 athletic scholarships every year...
...Fifteen yards is a cheap assessment for slugging, kicking, and other flagrant violations," he said. "I intend to recommend that we restore the old penalty of half the distance to the goal line for such infractions...
...sources of most flagrant abuse, the committee found, was the government's obligation under the old law to buy all books and supplies authorized by a veteran's school. The new bill will probably authorize a fixed monthly sum for subsistence, books, and supplies...