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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on the May 26 De Gaulle article. You made a forward step to a better understanding of the French leader who, as in 1941, is the only apparent salvation of France. Once again, Vive De Gaulle is coming to mean Vive la France in the eyes of the free world...
...command the respect of the business community; as historian, she has an instinct for the larger trends too often buried under reports of day-to-day news. She has a genius for translating a snarl of statistics into down-to-earth realities. Her favorite phrase: "What does it all mean...
...fainthearted that the decline in automobile sales meant a shrinkage in the U.S. middle-income market. Plowing through Department of Commerce statistics that few businessmen consult, she showed that the proportion of middle-income families has risen from 37% in 1947 to 43% in 1957. "What does it all mean? It means that one of the greatest economic social revolutions of all time-the surging growth in America of a mass middle-income class-is still going on. It means that industry should be placing more, not less, stress on the middle-income market...
...sign a loyalty oath that they never have belonged to or supported the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Such actions can have an obvious adverse effect on both teachers and pupils. The whole issue of segregation remains the foremost problem in the South, but authorities are mean-while trying to improve white and Negro schools internally...
...very democratic theory which first attached the words "public" and "universal" to education has proven to be education's most ruthless opponent at the other end of the scales of values: democracy in education has come to mean mediocrity...