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...fact that Hoover could kill any broad intelligence plan, involving other agencies, over the President's wishes is surprising. Who was in charge of the Executive Branch???the President or the FBI chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHITE HOUSE: Nixon's Thin Defense: The Need for Secrecy | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

Scientifically the word Aryan refers to language rather than race. Some scholars in England applied it to the whole family of Indo-European languages but stricter philologists confined its use to one Indo-European branch???Sanskrit, Iranian, and their modern dialects in North India and Persia. Max Muller, though not at all out of sympathy with the budding doctrine of Aryanism in Germany, used the word with seemly caution. Born in Dessau in 1823 to a German poet and dissuaded from, attempting a musical career by Mendelssohn (his godfather), Max Muller studied Sanskrit, comparative philology, grew fond of metaphysics, went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Anthropologists on Aryanism | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

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