Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Announced a new nine-nation agreement (including Russia) to regulate whaling...
...Warren G. Harding as a failure in the presidency by the 55 "authorities" of Professor Schlesinger [TIME, Nov. 8]. If service to the people who elected them is the criterion, then Harding ranks far above the two 20th Century "greats" [Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt] who allowed this nation to be plunged into two World Wars and then saddled us with a mountain of debt...
...Truman that for the four-year term he had earned for himself he would need tough and able men high in public confidence. A vengeful victor might have kicked out Jim Forrestal, who had not raised a finger in the campaign. But the man Truman had appointed as the nation's first Defense Secretary was deep in a complex military budget and other defense matters that must soon go to Congress. Last week, Washington heard that Truman had asked Forrestal to stay and would not let him go unless Forrestal insisted...
...Harvard-hating segment of the nation's press has been handed a new chance to snipe at the Veritas banner. The papers have just learned that last February Edwin B. Newman of the Psychology Department told Bloomfield College in New Jersey that he did not think psychologists at Bloomfield or elsewhere should be selected for their political or economic beliefs. And the press has also heard that Newman said Bloomfield flouted freedom of speech and conscience when it insisted on orthodox opinions. Hearing all this, they have given Newman harsh publicity in the last month...
When Newman spoke out against the Bloomfield doctrine, Harvard silently agreed with him, and a portion of the rest of the nation did also. But perhaps this was only because they were mistaking certain meanings, meanings often misunderstood in the days of Thomas Committees and Barnes Bills. Perhaps these people defined such phrases as "fuzzy-minded" and "American" in certain ways, and thought they knew which phrase to apply to whom. But the word now is that Newman's supporters are wrong about their adjectives. They have been caught napping, and while they have slept, these phrases and other outmoded...