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...fails to resign, the Democratic National Committee ought to fire him at the first opportunity," raged Georgia's Herman Talmadge. "We are paying Butler $35,000 a year to try to destroy the Democratic Party while [G.O.P. Chairman] Thruston Morton would be glad to do it for free...
...Main Street are really concerned about spending.") In defense of his program, the President has learned to use the veto-and threats of veto-effectively. Strongly supported by Republicans in House and Senate, and also by the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, Kentucky's Thruston Morton, the President holds the initiative. Since the Gallup polls have shown the Republican Party in general to be slipping badly (TIME, June 8), the Democratic liberals want to build a record by challenging Ike; Rayburn and Johnson want to ride with...
Crust. In Oshawa, Ont., Newton Morton was fined $10 for throwing a blueberry pie in a man's face, despite his plea that "the pie was fresh, and my mother baked...
Died. Dr. Morton Charles Kahn, 63, adventurous bacteriologist who tramped through the jungles of South America on numerous expeditions to study tropical diseases, developed (1948) a trap that could destroy 1,500 malaria-bearing mosquitoes a day (a recording of the hum of the female mosquito lures the males from miles around to an electrified screen that kills them on contact); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Whereas professors like Morton White and Buttrick emphasize the difference between teaching religion and teaching about it, Paul Tillich, University Professor, sees an essential spiritual unity in all attempts at scholarship. In a disquisition last November to the Overseers on "Religion in the Intellectual Life of the University" Tillich concluded: "in many realms of the scholarly work of a university the religious dimension is revealed, independent of a concrete religious tradition." For Tillich, "the religious question is the queston of human existence generally...