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Most of these laws are being repealed. Nine states got rid of anti-margarine legislation during the last two years; the Senate has a bill before it now to kill the Federal oleo tax. It has been a hard and unusual fight. A recent House measure wanted to give oleo an attractive deep Sunkist orange hue. An eminent lobbyist has stated that yellow is "butter's own color," and that if margarine makers wanted a color they could damn well dye their stuff green. The oleo-makers retaliated to this with a barrage of bright yellow advertisements. One southerner fought...
...rid of them?" I asked...
...easy," he said. "We just got hold of 50 tomcats and they killed the mice in no time. Of course we did have a little trouble getting rid of the cats-had to get a bunch of ferocious bulldogs. They really tore those cats apart...
...rid of the elephants...
...subject of guilt. The denial of personal sin, he holds, has done more to keep man from God, and to disintegrate society, than any other single factor. Psychiatrists are enemies of man, Sheen says, whenever they view the sense of guilt as an undesirable symptom and try to get rid of it by convincing the patient either 1) that he was not responsible for his sinful actions, or 2) that such actions are really healthy and normal...