Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Philosopher Blanshard, a Quaker convert: pacifism is "plainly immoral." A Friend, he maintained, can take up arms and still be a Friend. He rejected the position that "the use of organized force by one group upon another is always wrong." Since Japan invaded Manchuria, he wrote, pacifists have "made the renunciation of force into a Moloch whose idolatry had to be maintained, no matter what the cost in lawlessness, blood and misery...
Said Philosopher Blanshard, a Quaker convert: pacifism is "plainly immoral." A Friend, he maintained, can take up arms and still be a Friend. He rejected the position that "the use of organized force by one group upon another is always wrong." Since Japan invaded Manchuria, he wrote, pacifists have "made the renunciation of force into a Moloch whose idolatry had to be maintained, no matter what the cost in lawlessness, blood and misery...
Main job of SWPC is to convert the little fellows into war-goods production. To do this the agency will sign contracts directly with the Army & Navy, then subcontract to little plants best equipped to do the work. Some midget factories will pool their facilities. In other cases SWPC will finance needed machinery and equipment (if it can be bought). If all these small plants were smokestack deep in war work, they might produce more than one-third as much as Detroit's amazing war giants...
...teachers from glutted areas (e.g., New York City) to the places where shortages exist; 2) a teaching program to salvage the illiterate 10,000,000; 3) a plan to cope with teacher shortages in two critical war subjects-200 colleges and universities will give free courses this summer to convert teachers of other subjects (English, Latin, etc.) into math and physics teachers...
Chekotikhin thought that big American corporations hired "armed thugs to intimidate the workers and occasionally murder them." But though Author Reynolds liked Russians, the Bolshies did not convert him. Says he: "I left almost as ignorant of Communism as when I arrived...