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R. G. LeTourneau Moves Dirt. (illustration)

R. G. LeTourneau was for many years an outstanding Christian businessman—heading a company which manufactured large earthmoving equipment. He once remarked, “We used to make a scraper known as ‘Model G.’ One day somebody asked our salesman what the ‘ …

Liberal Senator Brings Typical Right-wing Accusatation (illustration)

At the start of the McCarthy era, Floridian Claude Pepper, one of the Senate’s most outspoken liberals, was on the conservatives’ “hit list” along with many other senators. George Smathers, a conservative, lashed out with some typical right-wing accusations. He called h …