Word: hidebound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unalienable rights; among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. . . ." Disorder and Glory. The path down which Thomas Jefferson wanted to lead his nation - and to which his words still point- was no easy one. He wanted no paternalistic government to arrange its citizens' lives, no hidebound society to order their thoughts and actions. To him, the perfect state had "a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another . . . [and] leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement" -to live their lives in as tumultuous, glorious, ambitious...
Morgan could happen only to Mutual, least hidebound of the networks. Until last April, he was an on-&-off Mutual attraction. Fifteen minutes after he jabbered his jabberwacky over WOR for local sponsors, he repeated the show for the network. Theoretically, Mutual offered Here's Morgan to local sponsors, but there was only one taker-a beer distributor in Hawaii. So two months ago Morgan refused to continue the repeat broadcasts, contented himself with his sponsored WOR show...
...Army, for the first time, has given an adequate voice to its own air-minded officers. Half the members of the new General Staff are airmen. In the three new sections which replaced the specialized haunts of hidebound brasshattery, General Arnold (Air) has equal say with Generals McNair (Ground Force) and Somervell (Supply). The Navy, whose top command was shared by two admirals, now has only...
...place another youngster: 36-year-old Assistant Professor Warren Seyfert of Harvard, which is just next door. A teacher in Harvard's Graduate School of Education, Seyfert is rated one of the faculty's ablest men. He believes that New England preparatory schools are still too hidebound and classical, plans to teach his boys at Browne & Nichols about combustion engines, photography, modern geography, aviation...
...avoided politics to such an extent that he had been criticized for pulling punches. But his 28 years of training as a middleman had helped fit him for the post of middleman of defense. Though some businessmen called him too New Dealish, no New Dealer thought him a hidebound reactionary...