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...Hampshire," these people argued, "McCarthy would need Estes Kefauver's drive or Jack Kennedy's money. He has neither." Moreover, they said, a defeat in New Hampshire would likely sound the death knell for the rest of the campaign...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: The McCarthy Campaign | 11/15/1967 | See Source »

...surplus as unjust profit. In perhaps the most widely touted passage from Das Kapital, he predicted that all this would inevitably lead to Communism: "The centralization of the means of production and the socialization of labor reach a point where they prove incompatible with their capitalist husk. The knell of private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Historical Notes: Cursing the Carbuncles | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...ignorant, blatant and irrational bigotry displayed by white Mississippians during the freedom march [July 1] is a tragic disgrace to everyone who supports the ideals on which the U.S. was founded. The peals of shock ringing out across this country will soon become the death knell of the white reactionary movement in Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 22, 1966 | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

Intervention by the United States in the Dominican Republic has been interpreted throughout Latin America as "summoning the death knell for the Alliance for Progress", Albert O. Hirschman, newly appointed professor of Political Economy, said last night...

Author: By Richard Blumenthal, | Title: Hirschman Sees End of 'Alliance' | 10/14/1965 | See Source »

Finley warned that the Constable proposal would sound the "death knell of general education. In 25 years there would be no more Walds or Beers to Carry the program on. Departmental pressures would become too great, forcing all the good teaching fellows back into specialization. No one would care about Freshmen anymore...

Author: By Curtis Hessler, | Title: Finley Affirms Faith In Gen Ed, Attacks Constable Proposal | 12/7/1964 | See Source »

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