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Lastly, the new provision allowing dead wood to be thrown out of the Council by a vote of the members makes it possible for the body to keep itself vital. It is to be hoped that this power will be used, or that the threat of its use will keep men on their toes. If future Councils will act in some such way as this, the reform effort will have more than justified the misunderstanding and criticism it has aroused...
...that the protest against the oath implies any fundamental social choice or even a clear realization of the nature of the threat. On the contrary, the chief emotion of the majority of protestants is resentment at the "imputation of disloyalty" in the oath laws, the suggestion that teachers might also be radicals. And behind this sense of injured innocence lurks a further feeling of outrage that members of a learned calling should be held to account for their words and acts by politicians representing a noisy rabble of legionnaries, professional patriots, and the yellow press. Those who have taken...
...probably only one of a great many that feel Harvard, permitted or promoted by President Conant, has spewed up a disgraceful, traitorous, communistic stink and hatched most of the un-American new deal, altogether the greatest threat to the United States stamina, popular liberty and morale since the Republic was founded...
...shrewd, dynamic Co-Founder and National Secretary Robert Earl Clements is the man who has marshaled the Townsend hordes into a potent and profitable political army. In Washington last week, day after he was summoned to appear before the House investigating committee set up to destroy the Townsend threat (TIME, March 2), this 41-year-old onetime Long Beach, Calif, real estate broker announced his resignation from Old Age Revolving Pensions. His stated reason: "Differences with Dr. Townsend over fundamental policies...
...Most lobbyists attempt to gain their legislative ends by political threat: "Unless you vote as we say, we will defeat you in the next election...