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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such frantic efforts to avoid open conflict with McCarthy have characterized Eisenhower's relations with the Senator ever since his nomination. The first indication of this policy came when he agreed to remove a vehement defense of General Marshall from a speech he gave in Wisconsin during the campaign. McCarthy had earlier implied Marshall was a traitor. After the election, many people expected the President to take a firmer stand, but he has not. There have been a number of occasions, the most memorable being the Matthews case, when Eisenhower had what seemed perfect opportunities to check the Senator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The President and the Senator | 3/4/1954 | See Source »

...supposed conflict between knowledge of one's subject and pure teaching ability is an over-emphasized one, Pusey said. "It is hardly as real it seems to the undergraduate. There is no subject most teachers are more concerned about than their own students," he explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey Points to Educational Opportunities | 3/3/1954 | See Source »

...shrill profanity of a gang of teen-agers across the street. If Post No. 3 had reported trouble (as it sometimes did), hundreds of additional policemen would have been rushed to the scene. But this was a quiet night in Trumbull Park's seven months of racial conflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Seven Months' War | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...line with the Pres. policy. For more than one reason some of them may be interested in initiating investigations of their own. One of them is engaged in such an investigation now. After all, even in non-purge years, there is frequent jurisdictional conflict 'at home,' not only between the commis, but between depts within the same commis-as my misfortunes of last year are in part a good example. It is no different in America. Do not imagine that F. Murphy is there wholly for the purpose of dampening all investigations or that the State Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Witness | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...line of conflict between the analysis of Stokes and the Ivy League wanders through definitions of a liberal education, problems of fund raising, and the exact obligations of educational institutions to the nation...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 2/26/1954 | See Source »

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