Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a picture of Harold Stassen on the cover. In Portland, Dewey refused a drink of bourbon offered by a local politico, ducked out for his own bottle of Scotch. Commented a local columnist: "Out West here, podner, men have been shot for refusing to drink out of the common cookin' likker bottle and then showing up with their own pizen...
...This body was to act as an arbitrator on all questions concerning religious conflict, national frontiers, internal disturbance and common action against any danger from the east-which in those days meant the Turks. This he called the Grand Design...
...Christian Social Party had beefed that a new $6,850,000 subsidy to state schools meant discrimination against "free" schools, which are mostly Catholic (TIME, May 10). Socialist Spaak's common-sense solution in overwhelmingly Catholic Belgium: a consolation prize of $1,350,000 for "free" schools. But rebellion broke out among old Socialist anticlericals. Trumpeted brass-lunged Party President Max Buset: "We are asked to concede too much." He lined up other Socialist M.P.s, predicted that the Catholics-and Spaak-would back down...
...General Education program has been envisaged as a solution to this very problem. It is intended to provide students with a "common core of knowledge." Whether or not the program will eventually achieve this end is a moot issue at the moment, one that will be resolved only if and when the program becomes compulsory and is characterized by more of the suggestions made in the original Report. In the meantime, the undiscriminating methods of the lecture-books-examination system will continue in force, leaving undergraduates to their own varied, and in many cases, inadequate devices...
Sixty members of the Harvard Young Republican Club, meeting last night in Winthrop Junior Common Room, unanimously stamped approval on Charles K. McWhorter 2L as the organization's new president. He succeeds William L. Rusher...