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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant also declared that a "dynamic . . . free competitive society which holds promise for the future to large numbers of people" is a strong factor in persuading the U.S.S.R. that it cannot win over the rest of the world to its way of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Urges 'Get Tough' Russian Policy at Forum | 10/21/1948 | See Source »

Stressing the fact that many potential college students cannot afford to live away from their families, president Conant urged the development of more "Community colleges." That would allow the student to live at home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Junior Colleges Suggested by Conant | 10/20/1948 | See Source »

...requiring annual election of officers may react similarly to the disadvantage of industrial peace. The bill obviously aims at labor leaders who become so firmly entrenched politically that even the dissatisfaction of a majority of the workers cannot dislodge them. The problem of dealing with such leaders is indeed a great one. All honest laborites would welcome its solution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Labor Referenda | 10/19/1948 | See Source »

...solution. A leader who knows he must run for his job every twelve months must be constantly campaigning. He must make demands and produce wage boosts and other concessions every year if he is to keep his job. With such pressure behind him at the bargaining table, he cannot concede even to legitimate management claims. His concrete achievements must surpass even the airy promises of rival factions. The employers who propose this measure in the interests of "union democracy" are doing a disservice to the cause of good labor-management relations. And they will be creating a Frankenstein monster from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Labor Referenda | 10/19/1948 | See Source »

...spirit of international conferences should be that of a showdown poker game, not of a court of inquiry: You turn a card, and I will turn a card, rather than upsetting the table and calling you a fraud. While the Russians propose control of atomic energy, our response cannot only be that Bernard Baruch already has offered a fine plan which you nasty people ruined, so that you are clearly not making your offer in good faith now. If this is the adamant attitude of the West, the Russians can counter legitimately (from a point of pure logic) that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grand Jury at Paris | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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