Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local unit. The value of weekly training from a military stand-point might well be compared to Boy Scouting; it would be enormously expensive and highly complicated to set up; and, as a ten-year indoctrination program, it is wide open to the attacks of those who fear militarism in the United States. Although the Draft Law of 1948 is unsatisfactory, the alternative which President Conant discusses contains quite as many undesirable aspects...
...Laurent was more than willing. Previously there had been a good political reason for staying at home: fear that Quebec's anti-British bloc might misunderstand a trip to London right after his election as Liberal leader. The charge was sure to be made in Quebec that St. Laurent had gone to London to get British orders on how to run Canada. The emergency created by Mr. King's illness would stifle any such talk...
...Army is the servant of the people ... Hence, among us, the soldier who becomes an educator . . . enters no foreign field . . ." Eisenhower was going to see to it, he said, that Columbia remained a bastion of freedom: "Only by education in the apparently obvious [fundamentals of freedom] can doubt and fear be resolved . . . There will be no administrative suppression or distortion...
...promising boys & girls fail to go to college for economic reasons [alone] as the number who now enter ..." To provide genuine equality of opportunity, Conant favors: 1) federal aid to "shockingly inadequate" state school systems; 2) federal scholarships to the gifted but poor. And he disagrees with "defeatists" who fear federal control...
Remarks like that struck sparks from ABC's President Mark Woods, whose efforts to build network TV will give his company an insatiable appetite for films. The movies, said Woods, have nothing to fear from TV-if they hop on the bandwagon in time. That means turning out films especially for the living room at prices televisers can afford to pay. Then Woods blandly added what sounded like an ultimatum: "If the motion pictures are unwilling to enter this new industry on this basis, then my company is most certainly prepared...