Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy level, the skirmishing was brisk. Young Philip Willkie, elected to the Indiana legislature, suggested a national convention in 1949 to formulate a new program. Said New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey: "Instead of being forever against everything, the party must once in a while be in favor of the plain interests of the people...
...Brookings Institution's President Harold G. Moulton took a look at prospects for 1949 and liked what he saw: "A well-sustained level of national production and employment; a moderate decline in the cost of living; continued but abortive efforts at credit control; an expansion of Government expenditures for social and defense programs; [and] higher wages." Farm prospects would be dimmed by "a further decline in agricultural prices," and corporations would face increased taxes. But an increase in crops might prevent any real drop in farm incomes, said Moulton, and lower farm prices would "afford real relief for those...
...local judge had an idea: let the whites abandon their science courses, thus dropping their curriculum to the level of the Negro school. The school board was satisfied with this expedient, but not some of the white parents. At an open meeting in the high school gym, Mrs. Arthur Farrell protested: "We are being discriminated against just as much as our colored friends ... I have a child in the high school who planned to be an engineer. What's going to happen to him?" Replied School Board Member A. W. Walker: "Just take it as a stroke...
...Knox began to take up religion seriously on his own. A friend came down with typhoid and, feeling that he must somehow help, Knox lived on bread & butter for six weeks. When the friend died, Knox prayed for him 15 minutes daily "with my hands held above the level of my head, which is not as easy as it sounds." At 17, he vowed himself to celibacy: "The uppermost thought in my mind was not that of virginity ... I must have 'power to attend to the Lord without impediment...
Leighton was not sure whether the disciplinary problem would descend to the College level. He admitted that if it does he will be "somewhat non-plussed...