Word: disaffection
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...push toward faith in charity has been the fiasco of fiascos, the one Presidential scandal that could disaffect every demographic. Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Communiter Bona profundere Deum,” or, “to pour forth benefits for the common good is divine.” Maybe we should have left it at that...
...Concern that a major alteration in administration would disaffect students enrolled in the course. Members of Students for a Democratic Society organized the course over the summer to present a radical view of social change in America. Students enrolled seem to view it as being free of University interference...
President Emeritus James B. Conani he said last night that big city school disaffect should be divided into smaller separate districts with separate school board Rural districts "of insufficient size," he urged should be "consolidated...
...there are mitigating factors to this swing. With labor still the force it is, and with labor still predominantly of Democratic registration, the main effort of the Republicans must be to disaffect the Jeffersonian and non-union Democrats. The middle and far west are excellent spawning grounds for this dissatisfaction, with unpopularity of the O.P.A. and the current red scare providing the impetus. The loss of Henry Wallace will produce the same result at the other extreme. Yet the question remains whether the key Democrats in this key area will desert in numbers large enough to allow a clean oppositionist...
...than ever. For once the whisperings of his office staff that his mind was still "open" failed to convince. Rather it became understood that the President was impressed with some advice from Calvin Coolidge: that Herbert Hoover had back of him only one remaining large group, the Drys. To disaffect these would be political suicide...