Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upon reading Bernard Iddings Bell's rather brutal condemnation of the educational shortcomings in the American Common Man [TIME, April 25], I was seized with the thought that here is a situation for which a remedy must be found...
What are these "psychological laws of human behavior" [TIME, April 11 et seq.] upon which Professor Stace et al. claim morality can be based? Why cannot these laws be altered by the individual to suit himself, if they themselves are not grounded in a deeper reality? If charity has no reality except as a pragmatic mode of behavior, an individual could logically devise his own morality when his good appears to conflict with society's good. It then becomes a matter of who has the best opportunity and the most power...
Nebraska became the first state to abolish rent ceilings under the new federal rent-control law. The one-house legislature last week passed the law over the veto of Governor Val Peterson, who was against rent control too, but wanted it to last until April i, 1950 to avoid the hardship of rent boosts and evictions during the rugged Nebraska winter. The new law left landlords free to charge whatever rents they please after Nov. i for the 91,000 houses and apartments in Nebraska that are now under federal controls...
After firing her estranged husband Ted Thackrey in April, Publisher Dorothy Schiff* decided that in the editor's chair the Post Home News needed a working newsman who was a liberal with a clear anti-Communist record. Crusading Jimmy Wechsler seemed to be just the man. A onetime Nation assistant editor, Wechsler was on the original staff of the late tabloid PM, later its national affairs editor and Washington chief. In 1946, in protest against the paper's editorial Redlining, he chucked his job and went over to the Post. A graduate of Columbia...
...official action has yet been taken, Dean Griswold said yesterday, upon a recommendation by the council of the Law School Association that women be admitted to the School. The council voted eight to five for co-education at a meeting on April...