Word: cools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advice on tutoring schools to be handed out: Don't. This year it is not merely academic idealism and intellectual honesty which inspires the Crimson's call for a concerted boycott or blockade or cram parlors; there is no need to invoke sacrifices for a noble cause. A cool-headed, pragmatic consideration of facts should now prove entirely sufficient to convince even the most hardboiled loafer of the inadvisability of acquiring per express a canned Harvard education...
...Detroit this week C.I.O.'s cool, canny Vice President Philip Murray brought some hope of peace at last. With Vice President Sidney Hillman, burry Mr. Murray is overlord and trouble-shooter of U.A.W. Two weeks of absentee advice (by telephone) having failed to get results, he appeared in person to read Messrs. Thomas & Frankensteen their umpteenth lesson in how to run a union...
...long time-and I would not listen. But now I am frightened, sir, frightened!'"A month before Lincoln's inauguration the Confederacy was already under arms. And young Henry Adams wrote to his brother: "No man is fit to take hold now who is not cool as death...
...with Russia would be an ill-advised act, at this time above all others, when we must do everything we can to peer through the fog that surrounds Russian policy, and be ready to make the most of possibilities for peace. Now if ever there is a need for cool heads and complete, accurate information for them to work on, not only in the State Department, but in the nation as a whole...
Such a manifesto as that of the YCL does little to foster this cool-headedness. Their furtive methods of distribution, and their obvious attempts at whitewashing a murderous attack on civilians can only serve to arouse the very anti-Soviet hysteria they deplore. The latest YCL statement emphasizes the fact that their views are not taken to further the best interests of the U.S., but to champion the cause of Russia. While there is no legitimate reason for suppressing such views, there is no denying that, emotionally, they invite suppression, and for this reason make less healthy the political climate...