Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curiously enough," William Knudsen holds no degree as a mechanical engineer; "curiously enough," neither does Henry Ford, nor do most of America's industrial revolutionists. "Curiously enough," Arthur E. Morgan (TVA) became a genius of flood control without an engineering degree; still without degree he became a college president (Antioch, 1920) to promote the educational philosophy that a degree in theory hampers the success of many a man by limiting his imagination to the record of accomplishment certified on his roll of parchment: "the textbooks you've digested have told you how things have been done which...
...worked ineffectually behind the scenes, Hedgerow spoke its lines from the center of the stage. To influential citizens all over the country went letters asking for testimonials to help "change the minds" of draft officials. No replies were announced, but the Philadelphia papers last week loosed on Hedgerow a flood of sarcasm and censure for getting too big for its Army boots...
...H.A.A. has promised to keep a trainer capable of administering first-aid in the Field House in the future whenever any sort of athletic event is taking place on Soldiers Field. Though better than nothing, such a move now is like trying to stop a flood with a prayer and a couple of blotters...
...India Allah Bakhsh's stand carried weight. In London it and a flood of other protestations over the mishandling of the Indian crisis apparently carried none. The House of Commons debated a new India Bill (to bypass court appeals in cases of military executions). When Leopold Amery, Secretary of State for India, announced that British planes were being used to machine-gun mobs in Bihar Province (TIME, Oct. 5), Tory backbenchers burst into cheers...
Apologists for the Raj will scream that India Without Fable is an India without proper evaluation of the contributions of the British in flood control, civil administration and education toward eventual freedom. The apologists may also have a point in criticizing Miss Mitchell's support of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. The great & good Nehru, before being jailed for the second time in World War II, contended that Indians armed with guns and freedom, would fight invading Japanese. The Raj believed armed Indians would only fight among themselves (or turn their guns on their present rulers...