Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unorthodox Approach. The second night Warren appeared in Salt Lake City for the first formal speech of his campaign. It was here that he might have been expected to throw off his folksy, nonpartisan role for a slashing attack on the Democratic administration. Instead, Candidate Warren unmistakably showed his intention of campaigning in his own unorthodox way, in the same reasoned, almost nonpartisan approach which he had used in his successful California campaigns for attorney general and governor. The 1,700 Republican workers, who only half filled the South High School auditorium, listened in bewildered silence...
...disagreements with Tom Dewey is his advocacy of government health insurance, at the state level. When the special session of Congress failed to act on housing and high prices last summer, Earl Warren was one of the few Republicans who publicly criticized Congress' do-nothing approach on these issues...
...Braves like their methodical manager. They like the way he memorizes the stances of each batter so that he can figure out what has gone wrong when somebody slumps, and they don't even mind when he drills them on sandlot fundamentals. The Southworth approach has kept the Braves on an even, unspectacular keel: they have put together no winning streak longer than seven games, no losing streak longer than four. Billy admits that the Braves may not be the best club in the league, but he expects to win-because the boys have the "will to win." Says...
...danger . . ." said Dr. Thomas, "is in our specialized approach to the study of science. We have transferred the techniques employed in the mass production of goods to the study of those fundamental phenomena which are the wellsprings out of which man's mastery of his environment flows. We have failed to see the great difference between physical and intellectual production. Are we becoming nut tighteners and wrench wielders . . . strait-jacketed . . . within narrow disciplines...
...pushed them. In An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913) he probed into the personal motives of the Founding Fathers themselves, suggested that as men of property they had been privately interested in a charter that would protect their own wealth. To older historians, such an approach was blasphemous. Harvard's grizzled Albert Bushnell Hart declared the book "little short of indecent...