Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disgruntled, the Chamber's die-hards lurked on the sidelines. Their most picturesque spokesman was Yale's aging (65) Economics Professor Fred R. Fairchild, who blandly remarked that the U.S. must abandon "grandiose notions of policing, feeding, reconstructing the world," give up "certain parts of the Atlantic Charter and the Four Freedoms which imply performing, indefinitely, costly services for the rest of the world and doing it for nothing." As the convention ended, the phrase resounding in most ears was neither Fairchild's nor Johnston's. It was Senator George's "fairly constant employment...
...also continue activities this summer. This Committee, at present, is holding an investigation of certain valeterias around Cambridge. During the first week in April placards were placed in the Houses upon which undergraduates were invited to inscribe their complaints. It is hoped that action to force these valeterias to abandon unfair business practices will be taken in the near future...
...public abandon its fanatical attitudes on liquor. Since prohibition proved itself worse than useless, alcoholism should be accepted as a public health problem...
These things must never fail. The future is a chaos of conflicting creeds; some few we must abandon. But if, in action ever, we are forced to lose the purpose that we see so clearly here, this path is but a dream awakened, and the future but a wall through which we know no gate. Let us resolve that, when we again assemble, we can look back and see this has not changed. Our paths may part, but we can strive to make each one a struggle greater, far, but no more fed by hate. We can each...
...Vibrant, gimlet-eyed Octavio Vejar Vasquez succeeded leftist Luis Sanchez Ponton as Minister of Education. He is a conservative, close to Mexico's powerful Catholic Church. To him goes the praise, and the blame, for abolishing coeducation in Mexican schools. He also recently ordered all schoolteachers to abandon their political activity...