Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from geography, from time and from the behavior of the enemy army, the Allies have been able to deduce certain hard facts. The world knows what the Germans took and how long they took to take it. The world has seen the German attacks decrease in scope and effect, has seen the Russians come back with ever-increasing power and effect...
Though for an actor to read his lines is almost unheard of, Equity has no specific rule forbidding it; it can only penalize unethical behavior. But Equity chose to treat the matter as a salary dispute and last week sent it to the American Arbitration Association...
...announcement of the new regulations stresses the fact that since the V-12 men are considered potential officers, they must justify their favored status by good academic work as well as military behavior...
Comebacks. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express immediately took up the challenge and began knocking down Cummings' story with testimonial letters from the places involved. Wrote Mayor Godsell of Worcester: "The behavior of the American troops is excellent. ... It is disgrace ful that such a statement should be made. . . . Misconduct in Worcester is negligible." Mayor Farrow, of Peterborough: "I am infuriated by this scurrilous statement. . . . The police have practically no trouble...
Unabashed, Cummings punched back: "American citizens resident in this country have called to thank me for breaking the conspiracy of silence about the behavior of certain elements of the American forces. . . . The great majority are a credit to their country. . . . The trouble with the minority is due . . . to the fact that the American soldiers have too much money to spend and too much time to spend it, and to a certain casualness in military supervision...