Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the biggest stumbling-block for federal aid is the fear--honest or not--of federal control. Everybody wants to get a slice of the federal pie; few prospective beneficiaries want the government to set up uncomfortable standards and stringent conditions. That accounts for a good deal of the hot air about, "federal dictation." The more imaginative opponents (not of aid, necessarily, but of controls) picture a gigantic Washington bureau sending out hatchet-men by the score to bulldoze teachers into pumping unconstitutional propaganda down the maw of American Youth...
...research" a fundamental quality factor of modern education which the Commission typically underemphasized in its enthusiasm for quantity. The Report in many places, he added, "is inconsistent and inaccurate." It nevertheless serves as a "signpost," In minimizing the dangers of "control" from the inevitable Federal aid, Buck stated his fear of influence upon freedom 'to experiment and to excel...
...reflection of a year in which Durocher joined the Giants, Harvard beat Yale, and Harry S. Truman won an election; or worse, it might be the result of some miscalculation deep in a lead-lined atomic pile at Oak Ridge. Whatever it was, it spawned a strange, unreasoning fear--a fear that no bravado, no artificial courage could erase...
...educators and young men are ominously similar to Hitler's tactics in Germany, Mather said. He cited the case of a faculty member in Evansville College, Evansville, Indiana, who was dismissed because he and served as the chairman of a Wallace rally. Such actions put a cloud of fear over university teachers which prevents them from expressing their real opinions or associating with any persons who might be suspicious...
With the draft called off until April, Selective Service Headquarters has expressed fear that draft board machinery will go to pieces. The boards, manned mainly by volunteers, will have no work...