Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discussion of the danger. The U.S., Dulles told the audience, must beware of any tendency to "become panicky and strike out violently." At the same time, he said, the U.S. must not "become fascinated, as by the gaze of a serpent, and become paralyzed into inaction lest the least movement might lead Russia to strike." At the White House the same day, President Truman admitted that his hopes for peace had been shaken in the past year. Then he carefully added: "I still believe we can get world peace. We must have it because we can't afford...
Lord Inverchapel contrasted Communism with what he called "British Socialism." "It was strictly a British movement." he stated, "which categorically rejected the doctrines of Mary and Engels." Its purpose is to build a "father society...
Henry Wallace's attacks on Marshall Plan aid to Europe received strongly worded criticisms at last night's Republican Open Forum meeting from Michael Karpovich, professor of History, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History. Oliver Allen, chairman of the Massachusetts Wallace for President movement, presented the third party views. The meeting was held in Emerson...
Meanwhile, graduate students have joined the "Save Geography" movement with a similar result. Peter II. Nash 1G declared yesterday that the Graduate Council's Executive Committee will look into the question at a meeting tomorrow afternoon. Nash, currently a student in regional planning, taught geography at the University of Wisconsin before coming to Cambridge...
Such a spontaneous movement from the rank-and-file clearly indicates the popular demand to fill the social vacuum in the House system. The "idea" of the Houses--intellectual contact between faculty and students--suffered greatly when tutorial was beaten to its knees a couple of years ago. The companion theory that a House should bring students with common interests together, has also been almost submerged. Many of the difficulties arose from the war, and the Houses are only slowly feeling their way back to solid ground with such activities as the Eliot House seminars and the language tables...