Word: fischers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ROTC Cadet Captaincies went to Thomas C. Fischer '49 and Phillip C. Assaf '46 as Orcutt F. Drury '45, Lyman W. Smith '46, Robert A. Curley '46, and Martin F. Groeley '48 were made lieutenants and will command platoons...
Winning Lineups: Eliot: le, Abbot; lt, Fischer; lg, Quisenberry; c, England; rg, Adams; rt, Cobb; re, Carroll; qb, McGiffert; lhb, Eckleberry; rhb, Lyne; fb, Galfin, Owen, Wheeler...
...Politics (TIME, May 12, 1941), Fischer, like many another unblinkered convert, sang the blues of disillusionment. Gandhi and Stalin is the logical outcome of his about-face: a warning of what Stalin is up to and a prescription for stopping him. It is also an awkward plea for Gandhi's "method of nonviolent yet dynamic and direct action which fuses the impatience of revolutionists with the scruples of idealists." Fischer admires Gandhi as uncritically as he once admired Stalin. Like the Mahatma, he "wants to improve the system by improving man." Yet it was Gandhi himself who (a year...
Beyond Diplomacy. If Fischer sounds bemused as a Gandhi-man, he is somewhat more lucid as a critic of Stalin. To him, the "political war is visible and tangible. Every day's newspaper is a battle bulletin of that war. ... It is easy to say 'We must meet Russia halfway.' We have met Russia 90 percent of the way. But Russia does not meet us even 10 percent of the way. . . . The entire problem of the relations between Russia and America, or between dictatorship and the democracies, has gone beyond the field of diplomacy. . . . This...
Fumbled Ideology. Fischer proposes to offset Communism, not with capitalism, but with a kind of quasi-socialism which he describes as "mixed-economy planning." "When the government and private capital are both in industry there can be competition. . . . The democratic world cannot prosper unless the British Labor Government succeeds." At times Author Fischer fumbles all over the ideological map: "Farmland should be as free as air. It should not be bought or sold . . . equality of wealth would eradicate the power advantage now inherent in wealth.. . . Marx and Gandhi might make a fruitful combination." In his honest but disjointed eagerness...