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...article in question [TIME, July 19]. Real Americans are interested in ridding this country of alien agitators who impose upon our hospitality and who attempt to destroy the very government under which they live and have their being, and yet we find a national publication doing much to offset our own activities and to place upon a pedestal a man whose name is anathema to all real American citizens...
...that I believed its enactment would not be in the best interests of the country. In the months that have passed since then my convictions have become strengthened. . . . Whatever immediate gain might be achieved through the proposed change in the Court would in my opinion be far more than offset by a loss of confidence in the independence of the courts and in governmental procedure...
...undertake a simultaneous organizing drive on all fronts to offset C. I. O.'s rapid membership gains...
There lay the real cause of the Hindenburg disaster, for Germany has no helium. It is a U. S. monopoly. The willingness of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt to sell Germany enough helium to fly the Graf and the Hindenburg on peaceful missions was offset by the price factor (more than 30 times as expensive, for 20% less payload efficiency) and by covert political opposition. As Columnist Dorothy Thompson wrote: "The destruction of the Hindenburg was an act of sabotage. For the peaceful world today, the world that seeks to join hands in the perfection of greater technologies, that seeks mutual...
...intention of recognizing the Insurgent regime of General Francisco Franco. Unperturbed, General Franco wiped the anniversary from the Rightist calendar, decreed a fiesta for May 2 to mark "the first triumphal year" of his revolt which began last July. The discrepancy of two months he overlooked in order to offset the "Red" May Day events which will be observed elsewhere in Europe...