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...also chairman of the senate insurance committee in the last legislature (which blocked reforms in Texas insurance laws), present the $436,000 appraisal to the insurance commission. Over a three-year period, Texas Mutual paid State Senator Moore $13,000. A state insurance examiner, said the court, performed "a specter of an audit" on Texas Mutual books but found nothing wrong, and the examiner later received $300 in cash from Paul Lowry. When Texas Mutual failed last year, it brought down three other Lowry insurance companies with it. Texas Mutual alone wrote 38,000 policies, and now it owes...
...remembrance of the time Grosz spent in a mental military hospital during World War I (nervous breakdown following brain fever); one of his fellow patients was a German soldier who had lost his leg, and carried about a piece of wood in his arm. Over the whole broods the specter of "Mother Europe," gorged with the blood of her dead...
...Ghosts. At bottom the trouble is that any U.S. proposal for strong action against Guatemalan Communism raises the old specter of U.S. intervention, which scares the Latinos more than Communism -even after a generation of U.S. good will, loans and trade agreements. Said a pro-U.S. South American President: "Nonintervention is essential to continental solidarity." The intervention of Moscow-controlled Communism apparently does not bother them yet. Even such neighbors of Guatemala as El Salvador and Honduras, while turning up evidences of Communist infiltration, are reluctant to step forward with accusations...
...Dramatic Specter. The first requirement of education for privacy is "to learn how to think-not out loud or in print, but privately. The thinker himself, not his neighbor, is to be the beneficiary ... To possess one's soul in an intellectual sense means to have found some answer, or partial answer, to the questions: What is the nature of this world . . . what is my place in it, and what must be my attitude toward...
...education for privacy . . . there is equally urgent need for ... the establishment and maintenance of moral harmony. From the days of primitive religion, through Greek tragedy, the Christian epic of sin and salvation, and modern psychology . . . there runs the theme of the un easy conscience. The dramatic specter of moral guilt is the principal character in many of the greatest creations of literary genius. No matter what the learned explanation, the psychological state is one of inner moral disharmony ... It is a private affliction and must be cured privately ... A vision of the good life the spirit must have; for devoid...