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Before the Rules Committee are measures embodying the Vice Presidential idea of cloture (limitation of debate) by majority vote. Scarcely a handful of Senators favor these proposals. Hence the Rules Committee would certainly turn them down. Hence, in order not to offend the Vice President, the Rules Committee has not met ? not once during the entire session...
...recounts the benefits which have accrued to himself and other publishers who have divorced partisanship from their columns. Advertising is booming; circulation has increased. Irate subscribers are no longer constrained to toss his paper across the room because it harrows their political sensibilities. The new policy aims to offend no one--and there is peace...
...part of the function of a conscientious press, a leaning towards either one party or the other is, however, a necessity. Partisanship which confines itself to the editorial page is as defensible as the party system itself. The professedly non-partisan journals have chosen to vacillate rather than offend their advertisers...
...treatment of this delicate problem, Miss Hurst will undoubtedly displease and even offend many, yet in spite of the fact that one may not care for her setting her characters, or her style, one must congratulate her upon this work which has, above all else, originality...
...muttering opposition. Sensitive Egyptian government archeologists had been afraid it would cast a slur on their efficiency, as they had felt when Carter and Carnarvon entered Luxor. Egyptian liberals, Egyptian scholars and King Fuad were of course quite overcome with astonished gratitude and eagerness, but they could not offend the mutterers, and an amazing bit of munificence hung fire because of a hitch at the receiving...