Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friendship's End. The blowup came over Goldfine's project to build a garage under Boston Common. After it became a losing venture despite some uncommon help from Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley and Governor Dever, Goldfine still managed to talk Fox into investing in it. At a 1955 showdown meeting at which Fox was supposed to settle up, Goldfine claims that Fox walked out-and Fox last week claimed that Goldfine disappeared after saying "he had to go to the men's room...
...Iraq and Jordan who had identified themselves with the West. The question was not whether the survival of Lebanon is important; it is. The question was how best to save it from the double-headed threat of Nasserism and Communism, both working against the West, though not necessarily for common ends.* To force Lebanon into a choice of who is for Chamoun, v. who is for Nasser would be to force many who did not want to be for Nasser into choosing Arab nationalism over a too heavy dependence on the West. The better way for the West...
Program & Plans. Last week the three men sat together at Confraternidad's first public meeting. Their program, to be spread through radio, press, lectures, books: i) "mold a collective soul through the union and understanding of all believers," 2) "form a common front against soulless forces which destroy the dignity of man," and 3) "promote the spiritual significance of democracy...
President Kimball and his executives make no bones about the fact that all this research comes high. In its 16 years Aerojet has paid only one common-stock dividend. All the rest of the profits go for research in a ratio that holds company expenditures to 30% for production and 70% for research each year. Eventually, probably by 1960 when Titan and Polaris are in production, Aerojet will pay its stockholders regular dividends. But never so much that it cannot lay a big bet on any exciting new field that opens...
...Maritain, "all this talk about American materialism is no more than a curtain of silly gossip and slander." He coolly measures U.S. attitudes by materialist standards and finds that the label simply will not fit: "America is not egoist; for the common consciousness of America, egoism is shameful . . . There is no avarice in the American cast of mind. The American people are neither squeamish nor hypocritical about the importance of money in the modern world . . . The average European cares about money as well as the average American, but he tries to conceal the fact, for he has been accustomed...