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...McKinley-Hoover philosophy of the inequality of man-that the man who uses his hands, whether with a machine or in the soil, should not be considered a participant in the bounty of America. It is conveniently forgotten that the farmer's aid from Government is an infinitesimal fraction of the great bounties bestowed upon manufacturing and business interests from Grant to Hanna and from Lodge to Hoover...
...large part of the report tries to redress the balance of public opinion. The public's press diet of investigation coverage has been so one-sided that the small fraction of communist or former communist instructors seem to many representative of faculties in general. "By every test of war and peace," the report states, "universities have proven themselves indispensable instruments of cultural progress and national welfare." This statement should remind the public that the stream of research, products, and experts flowing from the universities to Washington has done more to strengthen the nation than the comparative trickle of red influence...
...were led away to be shot. The purge reached its peak in 1937 when the Soviet's leading generals were secretly tried, and together with thousands of Red army officers, including all but twelve members of the general staff, were shot. But the trials were only a fraction of the picture. The GPU reached out into every small town and village, arresting minor party members, doctors, engineers, professional men & women, beating them into confessions of sabotage and treachery. In 1938 Stalin called a halt, ordered a purge of the purgers. Henry Yagoda. GPU boss, was tried and shot...
Though John Kidder was earning a better-than-average salary, he could not have paid more than a fraction of the cost of his care. The Fairfield County chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the national headquarters footed the bills. When it was clear that Kidder would never work at his old job again, his wife sold the Fairfield house and the car and got ready to move in with her father, Ronan's Postmaster Knute Johnson...
...aide, Major General Courtney Whitney, he issued a statement which began by calling the Truman remark "inaccurate and misleading." MacArthur went on: "My purpose and desire was not to extend the war but only to end it. At that time, this could have been accomplished with only a fraction of the approximately 70,000 American battle casualties which have since resulted. Actually, the longer it lasts, the greater the chance of its spreading...