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...College's two Bachelor degrees has once again come alive. The intervening decade has seen the faculty majority of scholars in the classical tradition who so roundly defeated President Conant on the issue in 1935 either fade from the scene altogether or yield to the pressure of what they confess is an inevitable trend. Odds are on the chance that all men now in College may graduate as a Bachelor of Arts, or at least as a Bachelor of Science who is a scientist . . . . but, regardless of the outcome, the modern student would be as much the loser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bachelor Eligibility | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Both national and Wisconsin Democratic leaders were in a swivet. Should they read Bobrowicz out of the party-and thus confess their error? Should they keep him and try to brazen it out? Or should they piously denounce Communism and let it go at that? Most forthright reaction came from Representative Andrew Biemiller, Democrat from the adjoining 5th District. He was against letting Communists crawl into office disguised as Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Caught with the Goods | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

Hangover with Friendship. Once the Russians threatened to send Cobin to Russia if he refused to confess that he was a spy. Cobin's reply: "Do you consider it a punishment to be sent to Russia?" His inquisitor smiled. Sometimes Russian officers came into the Americans' solitary cells for a chat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Tit for Tat | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...country comes first. It is inconceivable that in our democracy any two men should be placed in a position where they can completely stifle our economy and ultimately destroy our country. The Government is challenged as seldom before in our history. It must meet the challenge or confess its impotence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Decision | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...confess to you that all of our Presidents have made errors in the discharge of their duties-who doesn't?-but I wish to state that the foreign policy of all of them has been above reproach. Leon Cortes, in the international field, was a true democrat, as befits a President of Costa Rica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1946 | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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