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Well-primed with class prejudice, but ignorant of the larger issues at stake, a carefully tutored Cambridge electorate voted on November 4th to hamstring the effectiveness of the Cambridge School Committee and oppose progress in the city government. The Municipal elections degenerated into a muddled class war that obviated any...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mark of Greatness | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Top-level chieftains of both groups are intent on "recapturing" the Democratic Party. ADA's very formation stemmed from feeling on the part of liberal Democrats such as Chester Bowles that Henry Wallace's involvement with Communist Party supporters would hamstring honest resolution of public issues--as well as prove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or Hang Separately | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Eight hundred delegates at Madison, speaking officially for schools attended by over one million American students, tested in microcosm a nation's state of union. Theirs was the diversity of their elders and theirs was the chance to show whether isolationism and prejudice will hamstring tomorrow's adult generation. Happily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I.U.S. Affiliation and Racial Issue Tested Student Association's Unity | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

U.N.'s charter and the terms of the treaties with the beaten nations were the rules in the contest between Russia and the West, not the contest itself. That would be fought far from U.N.'s sober committee rooms. If anti-Communist Moslems and Hindus could not agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: After Molotov | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

Hamstrung Republic. In the '303, out of the army and a prosperous consultant on industrial patents, Barea observed from the inside how German interests, especially I. G. Farbenindustrie, had sunk their hooks deep into Spain's economy. Meanwhile, the parties of the Left-Socialists, Anarchists and Communists- brawled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spain Remembered | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

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