Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adopted . . . the fixed idea that any increase in purchasing power of any one group is good no matter what its effect may be on other groups. To assume, however, that we can continue at all times and places to increase the share of the worker and the farmer without concern for the need for capital savings and the incentive of the businessman is out of keeping with the liberal attitude...
...international's major concern would be "organizing the unorganized on a world basis, reorganizing the disorganized." From the Brussels headquarters organizers will go out to help infant labor movements in industrially backward countries -e.g., Korea and India. Representatives will be sent to watch labor conditions in the colonial areas of Africa. In Western Europe, I.C.F.T.U. will concentrate on the struggle to free labor unions from crippling Red infiltration...
This is one of the most peculiar regulations in the history of national security. The Navy, supposedly insuring the loyalty of its own personnel, has now taken upon itself the task of checking on the entirely legal comings and goings of private citizens. Why does the Navy concern itself with the political activity of persons not in the Armed Services? How does the Navy--or possibly some other government agency--plan to use this information gathered at the expense of individual privacy...
...this series it has been shown how the rules of the Dean's Office for regulating student activities have been formulated to meet certain problems which have annoyed or embarrassed the Dean's Office. These problems have been: 1) post-war political tensions, 2) bad debts, 3) increased concern for public relations, and 4) Radcliffe-Harvard relations...
Unfortunately, in its concern for solving these specific problems, the Dean's Office has failed to evolve any comprehensive philosophy of student rights. Consider the freedoms student groups have lost since before the war. They have lost the freedom to take any action outside Cambridge without Dean's Office permission, the freedom to have Radcliffe girls as members, the freedom to hold rallies in the Yard, the freedom to have a large volume of outside authorship in publications, and numerous other freedoms detailed in previous editorials in this series...