Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What this doctrine fails to taken into account, and what has led to the recent explosion, is that a ticket system like that now in vogue takes little cognizance of class standing and keeps an artificial caste hierarchy intact for four years of everyone's college life. The person who took girls to football games as a Freshman and is still escorting them there as a Senior has approached little nearer the ideal seat by his academic efforts. The places he wants are being taken by Freshman and graduate students and others who sit alone and like...
...course, not much can result from the Un-American Activities Committee's motion-picture doings. There are Communists in Hollywood, as there are in every large community, and some of them may lose their jobs on account of the investigation. But to call the activities of movieland Red is a most vicious folly, serving only to keep the Committee itself, which is the real Un-American menace, in the two-inch headlines until it can make itself really dangerous. The victims may then be the colleges or the independent newspapers. Certainly nobody, Democrat or Republican, is safe when Louis...
...calorie per day diet, are only producing half their pre-war output, though Saar miners on 3,800 calories maintain an 80 percent production rate. The fact that many of the heads of the coal as well as the iron and steel industries are known Nazis may account for this, and at the same time point up the dangers of a return of the Junker cartels that held power between the wars. Though the one ton of coal needed to refine three tons of ore might more easily be moved from the Ruhr to the Lorraine, announcement last Thursday that...
...Nanking correspondent, Frederick Gruin, went (by air, truck and afoot) to China's huge, little-known, mineral-and-oil-rich Sin kiang province on the borders of Outer Mongolia and, with luck, came back with his story. Those of you who read TIME'S account of it in the October 6 issue know that the story turned out to be another important piece in the pattern of Soviet encirclement of China. As for the trip itself, here are some excerpts from Gruin's account...
...fall of Khartoum. In England there was immense popular sympathy with his plight, and money was collected to rescue him. Stanley cut short his lecture tour to lead the expedition. His two-volume description of the epic journey was In Darkest Africa. Author Manning's less solemn account of it, based on other documents as well as Stanley's, trims its hero to life size...