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...part, goes to the other extreme. Bug-eyed over details--costs, inefficiency, and the like--Republicans do not see the large issues. More and more they have become minor demagogues, bellowing now about socialism, now about graft, leaving nothing undone to discredit the social and foreign gains wrought by twenty years of liberalism. Theirs is a policy of opposition at any cost, and although if in power they would change little, they have adopted the most negative sort of conservatism...
...issue of TIME, I came across an insane article entitled "Moonbeam McSwine's Fate" which [was] about my home town, Secaucus, N.J., of which I and many others are very proud . . . Our town has had nothing to be disgraced about compared to the disgrace you have wrought...
...warnings had been designed by Mark Clark's psychological warfare branch. It was certain that the Communist authorities would make every effort to keep people from trickling out of the target areas, and that the people would resent it. In World War II, similar warnings against the Japanese wrought havoc on Japanese morale...
...headed directly for the altar, where two pictures hung: on the right, a small (28 in. by 35 in.) Infant Jesus, believed to be a Rubens; on the left, Angel Playing Violoncello, attributed to Raphael. Down came the paintings, frames and all. From concealed drawers the thieves took finely wrought vestments and a gold wafer dish. Then out they went, as silently as they had come. Paris newspapers estimated their choosy haul at 50 to 60 million francs ($142,860 to $171,430). His missing pictures were not insured, but the Duc de Luynes took it with a shrug. Said...
Holy Cross to Broadway. What might a tire company want with Crosley? The answer lay in the amazing changes wrought in General Tire over the past few years by its president and founder, William Francis O'Neil, 66. A rough & ready graduate of Holy Cross, Bill O'Neil left his father's New England textile mill in 1907, got a Firestone tire dealership in Kansas City, Mo. A friend suggested that he make tires and plug his "home talent" products in the vicinity. "I didn't go for that home talent stuff," O'Neil recalls...