Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wear an eagle Nothing much to fear, Guys like Captain Carroll Lose the judges...
...given a good chance of cutting four of the Democrats' eleven seats in Congress out from under them. The Democratic leaders had counted heavily on a tour by Henry Wallace this month to bolster party strength in industrial districts. Now local Democrats could not drop Wallace for fear of alienating labor votes, and they could not repudiate Harry Truman, their Party's President...
...livelihood, and by hope-hope for a better future, which never comes, but which beckons with each new Five-Year Plan from the disastrous present. But when these controls creak under the enormous task, purges are a summary corrective-at once a technique of dictatorship and a reflex of fear...
...salt before being swallowed. If their requests can reasonably be granted we should make every effort to see that they are granted. We can then watch Russia's actions. If she exhibits a spirit of goodwill and co-operation, well and good. We can look forward to a fear free future. If, however, Moscow continues to agitate, obstruct, and demand we can expect the worst, knowing, at least, that we shall not be caught unprepared...
...know what Harvard alone, out of 14 colleges surveyed throughout the country, consents to allow its student legislature to be chosen by appointment. If the elective procedure is capable of providing capable leadership at Cornell, Oberlin, Chicago, Williams and other leading colleges, there is no reason why Harvard need fear smoke-filled rooms and Tammany-style politics. Fraternity blocs, the plague of many student governments elsewhere, could not achieve control on the local scene, where but one-fifth of the electorate belong to social clubs, and where the very nature of the organizations would preclude any concerted political activity...