Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advance his Jeffersonian ideas of equal educational opportunity and what he calls a fluid, classless society, Conant has become a vigorous essayist. It got him into one jam with the Corporation. Conant's "Wanted: American Radicals," in the May 1943 Atlantic Monthly, "urged the need of the American radical not because I wish to give a blanket endorsement to his views, but because I see the necessity of reinvigorating a neglected aspect of our . . . development." Conant said that "the kernel of [this] radical philosophy" would be a "demand to confiscate [by constitutional methods] all property once a generation...
They . . . believe that in the U.S.A. they have a true and permanent homeland where, together with their Christian, Mohammedan, Buddhist and atheist fellow Americans they may live, worship and serve as free and equal citizens. They believe that until that condition is possible in every nation, the problem of D.P. s will not be solved. The problem "is only as hard as man's heart...
...military began combing its files on Japan's 20,000 registered artists (most of whom specialize in still life), and chose 100 to glorify the Rising Sun. Their work, on exhibition last week, was as painstakingly photographic and heroic as modern Soviet painting. Technically it was perhaps the equal of state-sponsored war painting in Russia, Britain...
Heidt kept on counting out the bills-150 of them. When he had finished, he took out an envelope and wrote a bill of sale on the back of it. Contratto signed it; Heidt hired him as his manager. In a year, the ballroom netted a profit equal to the sale price...
...incident typified the political situation as Germans in the Soviet zone prepared to vote last week in the first "free and democratic" elections since 1933. On the surface all political parties and organizations like trade unions, which are recognized by the Soviet military administration, had equal rights in the campaign. In practice the dice were loaded heavily in favor of the Socialist Unity Party. In private conversations with Germans, Russian officers recently have gone so far as to refer to the Socialist Unity Party as the "Staatspartei" (state party). After all, it is the outgrowth of last Easter...