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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These peoples," he stressed, "are not interested in the maintenance of a status quo, in laissez-faire or direction less growth, but "are determined to take conscious control of their social development in order to destroy those plagues of civilization which are war, poverty and oppression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Hits Far Eastern Policy at Commencement | 6/7/1946 | See Source »

...quoted the current policy of the United States towards the Philippine Islands which will receive their independence on July 4, 1946. "It was this promise," he claimed, "which kept them fighting for us during the long years of war. It is the belief in this promise that made them destroy their homes, made them scorch the earth, and fight from the hills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Hits Far Eastern Policy at Commencement | 6/7/1946 | See Source »

...arises between one particular group, no matter who they may be, and the country as a whole, the welfare of the country comes first. It is inconceivable that in our democracy any two men should be placed in a position where they can completely stifle our economy and ultimately destroy our country. The Government is challenged as seldom before in our history. It must meet the challenge or confess its impotence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Decision | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...years' experimentation with tissue cultures at the Institute, Dr. Wilton R. Earle transformed normal cells to cancerous cells by treatment with 20-methyl-cholanthrene, a coal-tar chemical. In an effort to determine what takes place in the mutant cells, he now plans to destroy existing cultures and re-outfit his laboratory for a fresh attack on the baffling problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: War on Cancer | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...sense of the past. The Manichean heresy that God and the Devil are each in control of half the world, a heresy which the New England ministers of the seventeenth century all unwittingly dramatized into the permanent fabric of American thought, captures the soul of Asa Stryker eventually to destroy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/18/1946 | See Source »

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