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...Indeed, Lugar took on Lindsay in a successful floor fight for the presidency of the National League of Cities at a time when the latter was still widely touted as a White House hopeful--and this despite the fact that Lindsay, as the previous year's vice-president, was automatically in line for the top post of the municipal organization...
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...Lugar also ran roughshod over the people in pushing Unigov, metropolitan government, through the state legislature, despite admitting that public opinion in the affected areas was running heavily against it...
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...As Toland notes in Chapter 27 relative to 1943: "The Church, under the Pope's guidance, had already saved the lives of more Jews than all other churches, religious institutions and rescue organizations combined, and was presently hiding thousands of Jews in monasteries, convents, and Vatican City itself...
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