Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the London Conference of Arabs and Jews adjourned until December 17, the British have time to revise their partition offer by recognizing the importance of permitting the Jews to conduct their affairs independently. Similarly, the British can find a means by which to present the plan diplomatically but firmly to the Arabs as a "fait accompli," with the almost inevitable result that the Arabs would grumble a bit and then accede. Both Jewish and Arab extremists must be ignored, for the plan is essentially one of compromise. But the most important element is speed. British soldiers are dying...
...public the fact of his expulsion by the state board of the New York Communist Party. The Worker detailed his sins. Most mortal: fighting the Party's present "political and tactical line." Then, as usual in such cases, came a little character assassination: "In 1934, because of personal conduct unbecoming a member of our Party . . . he was removed from leadership. His degeneracy has proceeded so far that he could not be saved...
...they are learning it. First they elected temporary officers. G.I.s and counselors guided them. One of the first things the boys wanted to know was how the secret ballot system works. The temporary officers then drew up temporary rules. Rule No.11: no political party domination. Other rules: good conduct, no taking food out of the club, no begging or picking up butts in the street...
Before they took office, Gandhi had counseled the ministers on domestic conduct: do not keep a large retinue of servants; make women do housework; "I am sure that no leader will hesitate to clean his own lavatory." Now he questioned each minister closely about the workings of his department, and made practical suggestions to which his spiritual authority gave the weight of a military command. One minister reported that the Mahatma "is keen for industrial progress...
Kinkeldy, former professor of Musicology at Cornell, will he visiting Lecturer in music under the Horatio Appleton Lamb Fund, which as in the past sponsored such men as Bela Bartok, Georges Euesco, Aaron Copland, Gustav Holst, and Hugo Leichtentritt. Kinkeldy will conduct a seminar in musical history this fall and will also teach the University's introductory course in music research...