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Phil Murray did it at last. For a long time, his right-wing followers have been demanding that he rid the C.I.O. of Reds. During the 1946 convention, the right-wingers rammed through a resolution formally damning all Communistic activities. A sick and uncertain Murray gave only cautious approval. A few months later he called labor agents who peddled the Communist line "goddam traitors," and kicked Harvard-bred Lee Pressman, a notorious Communist-liner, out of the job of C.I.O. counsel. From that point on, Phil Murray grew bolder. Some believe that he even helped push that old bibber...
...from hydrants in the yard and use outdoor privies. There are almost 6,000 communities in the U.S. with no public water system, more than 9,000 without sewerage systems; in 8,300 communities, where some 70 million people live, there are no modern facilities for collecting and getting rid of garbage...
...more than five minutes. So the girls ought to do something about it themselves. I understand that the key people in this sort of thing are the Housemothers. Let the girls approach these stern people, and let them demand that the lines of communication be extended. Let them get rid of that derisive repeated blast of buzzing that the telephone company is pleased to call a busy signal. It offends the senses and curbs the passions. It must...
...schools of this country will have to face just the same problem of periodical grades when we have got rid of our antiquated system of "certificate" examinations...
...Unconscious & Confession. The means psychiatry uses to make its cures are often experimental, and sometimes obscure. What about its ends? It aims to make its patients "wise up" to themselves -and thus get rid of a mysterious bellyache or a sad, twisted notion that a prince is coming to call any day now. That is an ambitious aim. Is it not, in fact, a challenge to religion on religion's own ground...