Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking back at past U.S. depressions, from Martin Van Buren to Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman got a good-natured laugh when he mentioned his own 1921 bankruptcy-"when the businessman got into politics," meaning himself. But he turned dead serious when he talked of the need for preventing any such panics in the future by "planned" (i.e., not controlled) economy. Said the President: "It is absolutely essential that the economic structure of the United States of America remain absolutely sound and prosperous, for the simple reason that ... we have become the symbol of what governments should stand for-the welfare...
...case of Philosophy Professor Herbert Phillips, the question becomes a good deal more difficult. The only place where this question could have been solved was Professor Phillips' own class room. Here the committee found that "... his practice is to warn his students of his bias and to request that they evaluate his lecture in that light...
...case of the six professors had begun when a committee of the Washington state legislature investigated the university. Summoned for questioning, Psychologist Ralph H. Gundlach, Philosophy Professor Herbert J. Phillips and Joseph Butterworth of the English department refused to say whether they were members of the party or not. Three more-E. Harold Eby and Garland O. Ethel of the English department and Anthropologist Melville Jacobs-said that they had been, but were no longer. President Raymond B. Allen and a faculty committee on tenure and academic freedom undertook to investigate further...
...Grantly Dick, Read (TIME, July 22, 1946) began campaigning for "natural" childbirth some 30 years ago. His prescription for the delivery room: banish fear, use as few drugs as possible. Two years ago Dr. Read came to the U.S. and found interested listeners in Dr. Herbert Thorns and Dr. Frederick W. Goodrich...
Citing President Conant's last annual report, Aiken said last night, "The whole notion of a free university is that of a self-regulating corporate body." He maintained that the action of president Allen in the dismissal of English professor Joseph Butterworth and Herbert Phillips of the Philosophy Department, over the findings of fellow faculty members, violated that concept, and made it impossible for him to teach there...