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...would do two things. The first would be to unfrock the Hon. Hubert Humphrey [U.S. Senator from Minnesota] as its vice chairman. The second would be to give its annual award this spring to the Hon. Harry P. Cain, former U.S. Senator from Washington. Humphrey continues to offend the sensitive by defending the disgraceful bill he introduced into the Senate last summer which would have saved us from Communism by sending every pitiable old woman in the open party to prison for five years as a conspirator. You would think it was something a man would prefer to forget...
...government, and any other neutral government that might be willing to listen, to take very active steps to persuade both sides simultaneously to abandon the threat of war as an instrument of policy. It may be feared that neutral governments will shrink from a task which is likely to offend the most powerful nations of the world, for there is one matter on which all the powerful nations appear to be agreed, and that is that neutrality is an offense against morality and decency...
...Senate, McCarthy said that he had never meant to offend anyone. "I admit," said he, "that at times I have been extremely blunt in expressing my opinions. I do not claim to be a master of words." But, lest anyone think he was really apologizing, he added: "In the facts and opinions that I held, I am unchanged." Then he made his motion to cut off debate after two more days. After hours of wrangling, the Senate agreed...
Explaining the expected election standards, Dunn said Pete Edelman's Yardling ad "for crudity, lewdity, stewdity" was "as low on the ladder as we will let go by, the nadir." He insisted that material has "get to be clean enough not to offend women and parents...
...agitated among the 100,000 Vietnamese in Paris, and tried to drum up support for Indo-China reforms at the Versailles Peace Conference (Woodrow Wilson, apparently unwilling to offend the French, did not take up the matter...