Word: frees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means of halting the anarchy which stems unceasingly from the Protestant principle of exalting the private judgment of each individual. When Luther posted his thesis on the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral, he unleashed upon the world a Pandora's box full of the evils of paganism, free love, divorce, and error from which the world has not yet recovered...
Ciardi, speaking next, answered Muchnick by denying the need or advisability of laws barring Communists from faculties, and said that such legislation would place a restriction on "the basic principle of the educational process--a mind free to observe data without outside influence...
Sullivan cited Oliver Wendell Holmes' dictum that "no man is free to shout 'fire' in a crowded theater" in defense of his thesis that Communist Party tactics are a "present threat" to American freedom and should be opposed by whatever legislation is needed. Emphasizing the implications of the present international situation, he said, "There are only two contestants in the world scene today--the United States and Russia. We have no alternative but to consider Russia as an enemy...
These troubles are, simply, that (1) Europe cannot produce as well and as efficiently as the U. S.; (2) As long as this technical backwardness continues, free trade between the continents is probably impossible. This is a reasonably short-run proposition; some day technological progress may put Europe very much back on its feet. But even ECA admits this day will...
...meeting, sponsored by the Harvard Liberal Union, will feature talks by representatives of the Young Republican Club, John Reed Society, Young Progressive, Free Enterprise Society, Students League for Industrial Democracy, World Federalists, and Democratic Club, besides...