Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happened in the cordial wake of the North Atlantic pact. Thus, before the pact was even ratified, it could already claim one massive achievement. The pact, and the arms program that went with it (see below) had promised France security. In return, France stilled her fear of a resurgent Germany long enough to listen to the U.S. argument: Europe could not recover while Germany remained a despair-ridden slum (TIME, April 4). Much still remained to be settled (see INTERNATIONAL), but the German agreement was a giant step forward...
From the first, District 50's tactics were highhanded. They would not go into an election to find out whether the U.M.W. represented anybody at all. They counted not so much on their actual strength as the fear they could stir up. New Yorkers well remembered the 1934 cab strike, when 5,000 enraged hackies ran wild through midtown Manhattan, overturning and busting up cabs, fighting cops and stoning non-strikers...
...lies in the fact that "suspicious rumors and public and private pressure" have in many areas come to appear as genuine grounds for punitive academic actions, the committee maintained. In their place, must be substituted "calm objective deliberation" and "slow of proven fact," continued the committee. Not confidence but fear, it concluded, is the greatest weakness in our society...
...much for the liberal arts colleges as for graduate, professional, and secretarial schools; here discrimination may mean not only loss of an education, but also loss of job opportunities. Proponents of Senate 133 say that those schools which follow a non-discriminatory policy ordinarily have nothing to fear from anti-bias legislation, while those that have the questions and quotas can alter their stand without waiting for commission pressure...
...true jurisdiction of the planned committee could achieve its purpose without harm to educational institutions. Though the present New York anti discrimination law, in effect for the last six months, is the only precedent for this action, it helps show that such legislation can be passed without fear of unpleasant consequences for education...