Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just don't have the kind of money that Northern colleges can throw around-some Harvard professors make more money than our governor. Northern schools bid up the rank, too, offering associate professorships to instructors. It takes 25 years to build a university faculty-and only two to destroy...
...20th Century revolutionary tactics. As the President's Temporary Commission on Employee Loyalty put it: the U.S. is now "dealing with organizations which . . . are committed to a policy of deception and falsification, which advocate a disregard for the sacredness of an oath, and which while seeking to destroy all the traditional safeguards erected for the protection of individual rights are determined to take unfair advantage of those selfsame safeguards." The Commission had to admit that "because of the secretive manner and method of their operation," it did not know how many subversives are in the federal employ today...
...current plan draws the bit too tight by offering a system that begins and ends at the discretion of the Attorney-General and his advisers. Unless the government exercises the utmost moderation in the execution of the loyalty tests, the abuses inherent in the plan will go far to destroy an ideology while trying to protect it. Before the Attorney-General unwittingly sets off a modern version of the Salem witch hunts, he would do well to consider the fiasco that culminated in the Sacco-Vanzetti case after the first World...
...some of the questions did require an answer. Wasn't there danger that such "independent movements" would destroy U.N.? Was it politically wise to support the government of Greece, which was hardly a model of democracy? Wouldn't this program lead to the same kind of imperialism which Great Britain had followed so long and which Americans had so sternly criticized in the past...
...economy, civilian experts to aid her in reconstructing her war-torn country--and military experts and materiel to beef up her army of over 100,000 men. By so doing, the United States would take up where Britain left off--aiding the present Greek government to root out and destroy the EAM forces in the north and to supply the Greek and Turkish governments with the economic and military wherewithal to stem the dynamic onrush of the Soviet Union towards the Dardanelles...