Word: lerner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country needs a watchdog to guard against such criminal activity. But everyone knows that a good watchdog is not an inexperienced loud-mouthed puppy that scents a burglar in every bush and snaps at every stranger. The Dies Committee has proved itself a willing sounding board for what Max Lerner has called "kiss and tell" disgruntled fascists and communists of perjured word and shady background. It has seized at every opportunity to hit the headlines with some, new "expose," often upon the basis of the flimsiest kind of evidence. Distinguished educators, outstanding liberals and practically every New Dealer in Washington...
...survive here, we cannot continue to hold Tweedledum-Tweedledee elections. At least an independent labor party built around the progressive unions will force one of the major parties toward the left. At least it will bring a renewal of the advance toward what the pre-war Max Lerner called a "democratic collectivism," an advance which has down so tragically in the past two years, and which is turning into an ignominous retreat under the pressure of "national defense...
Other members of the Independent Voters' executive committee were announced: Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas, Harvard Law School's Dean James M. ("Chink") Landis, Novelist Fannie Hurst, Freda Kirchwey, editor of The Nation, Williams College's Professor Max Lerner, Thomas ("the Cork") Corcoran, official committee agitator, bobbed into New York City to help Mr. LaGuardia. To Springfield, Mass. went handsome Paul V. McNutt, onetime Presidential aspirant himself, whose throat was last year neatly slit by New Deal candidate-assassins. Keynoting the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention, Mr. McNutt described the Republican policy as giving business complete license to operate...
Concerned with the healing of dissension among various groups and the solidification of public sentiment behind a preparedness program, the committee on Morale and National Unity issued a statement on American Morale formulated chiefly by Professor Max Lerner of Williams former editor of the Nation...
...activities of the American Youth Congress, by an increasing tendency of grownups to get fed up with Youth. Thereupon I. S. S.'s advisers-among them: Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, Congressional Librarian Archibald MacLeish, Smith's President-emeritus William A. Neilson, Williams' Professor Max Lerner-decided that the organization should have as its main function teaching youth "to think historically and to act with restraint." Said they: "Organized 'action groups' . . . have been able to secure much greater influence than their relatively small numbers deserve...