Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rolling plain of western Kansas, near Goodland, looked like a tinseled Christmas card last week. Light snow covered the fields, and green shoots of winter wheat made sparkling polka dots in the white blanket. It was a picture to cheer not only farmers but the whole...
...unwelcome guests: Novelist Howard (Freedom Road) Fast, an editor of the Communist New Masses; Communist Gerhart Eisler, reputed U.S. Comintern boss; Arnold Johnson, legislative director of the Communist Party; Carl Marzani, dismissed by the State Department for concealing his Communist card...
...disturbed about his 3500 veterans. Too may of them, he said, were digging "academic foxholes." Dean Bender underlined the existence of two levels on which the undergraduate operates: on one he is the pure individual, plowing alone through the work laid out for him on his study card; he is, on this level, the only individual that matters. On the other level he is an individual in society: one of two, or three, or four roommates, one of three hundred members of a house; one of 5500 undergraduates...
...desperately to get "in" with groups he knows. He watches the club group; he finds out he is excluded if he does not meet certain restrictive standards. He watches the publications group; unless he has certain peculiar talents he cannot gain entry there. He may abhor politics, social work, card playing, or drinking; these groups are therefore out. The terms of the search should not be put too baldly, but it goes on nevertheless. Success equates with satisfaction, failure with unhappiness. Very few are strong enough to go the whole way alone...
...Union. Last week, three C.I.O. vice presidents and Lithuanian-born Abram Flaxer, the union's president, called on the Attorney General, pleaded with him not to include it. Asked Tom Clark: "Mr. Flaxer, are you a Communist?" The reply: "If you mean to ask do I carry a card, the answer is no; if you mean do I believe in some of the philosophical ideas of Communism, that is another question...