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...held in Montreal in September. Since Sam Gompers helped found the I.L.O. in 1919, the A.F.L. had furnished every delegate to I.L.O. conferences. As soon as he heard of the slight, crusty Bill Green got off a scorching, four-page letter to Harry Truman. Its gist: get rid of Schwellenbach, or else...
McMinn County's shooting veterans had spectacularly rid themselves of one type of tyranny. But thoughtful citizens knew they had set an ominous precedent. Abraham Lincoln had made the point...
Maybe it's my Calvinism cropping up in me, but I think we've already begun to lose the peace. In some places it's indifference. In others, like that Methodist church out in Michigan, they adopt the 20th Century version of crucifixion-getting rid of their pastor when he speaks the truth as he sees it [see below...
Gonna Walslca, Polish ex-soprano and husband collector (total fortune of her first four: $125,000,000), got rid of her sixth, Yogi Theos Bernard, but not without costs and regrets. He had provoked her in many ways, said she. First, he had caused her great mental anguish by insisting on living alone with his father in the "penthouse of the gods" (which she had bought for him), then he had tried to force money out of her by1) invoking Yoga powers, 2) "well-nigh choking and strangling me," 3) suing for separate maintenance because of a rheumatic heart which...
...order to ... rid themselves of the dissenters to their fraudulent theory of government, they have murdered millions of their own people. . . . When Stalin therefore proclaims to the Russian people that they must defend themselves against their natural enemies, the democracies, of which we form a large part, he is no imbecile. The imbeciles are all on our side of the fence. What Stalin fears is ... that the Russian people will learn the truth about Communism and the Stalin regime: that they have the lowest standard of living of any people in the world and the least freedom...