Word: dangered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greeks also had a Henry Wallace," said the President, but he thought the man was Alcibiades (450-404 B.C.), who deserted Athens for its enemy Sparta, deserted Sparta to return to Athens. He was "the greatest demagogue of all time," said the President. "We are now facing the same danger to this country. ... If imitators of that ancient Greek conqueror want to see its liberties subverted, he ought to go to the country he loves so well and help them against his own country...
...called "100 percent Americans," not communists, constitute, the greatest danger to the nation today, Leon M. Birkhead, director of the Friends of Democracy, told a Rindge Tech audience last night at the Law School Forum...
Birkhead named the Hearst-McCormick-Patterson press as part of "powerful financial interests" giving impetus and support to groups professing racist theories. "Our greatest danger," he said "is that, because of our fear of communism," we may fall into the arms of those men who supposedly "will save us from...
...struggle inside every state has been to keep any one group or interest from getting too much power...if la not this struggle for position between groups which is the danger. That indeed is a sign of health. Every society is an aggregation of pressure groups. Their activities are not things to deplore. The danger lies in one group gaining the ascendancy, moving into a dominant position, and exploiting the other groups...
...food. The others--in Athens, Peking, East Punjab, and Salzburg--are all crammed with students suffering from equally inadequate sustenance. In these universities, some of the moral and political leadership of a future world is being formed. Today, according to the Rector of the University of Heidelberg, there is "danger of a moral and political breakdown" among students. Again, the situation in the other universities is similar...