Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three Jobs. Descendant of New England farmers and tanners, Conant is a registered Republican, who prefers to keep publicly neutral in political campaigns (he was for Al Smith in 1928); he usually comes out for issues (like an interventionist foreign policy) rather than...
...submit suggestions for revision of the Montreux Convention (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) so as to give certain privileges to the Black Sea nations, i.e., Russia and her satellites, Bulgaria and Rumania. The Western powers submitted their ideas, but Russia merely continued a press and radio war of nerves -charged that neutral Turkey had aided the Axis, hinted at territorial demands, asked such questions as: if Britain can control Gibraltar and Suez, and the U.S. Panama, why should not Russia control the Dardanelles? Moscow also pointedly failed to renew its 20-year-old friendship treaty with Turkey, which expired last fall...
...exception of the excellent Boston-published Christian Science Monitor, which is more a national than a local paper, the Herald is probably the best of a lot of indifferent, purely local Boston sheets. Its competition: the reactionary Post, the sometimes timidly liberal morning and evening Globe, its own editorially neutral evening Traveler (all of which run front-page display ads) and two Hearst tabs...
Method & Error. Professor Northrop, who teaches the philosophy of science at Yale, will not abide condemnation of science as such. "Nothing," he says, "can do more harm to democracy than the thesis, so popular with many contemporary moral and religious leaders, that science is neutral, if not positively evil, with respect to human values...
Complaints received at the Crimson up to yesterday as guides for its buyers' strike emphasized ballooning food prices while clothing items escaped specific notice, possibly because, as one neutral businessman said, some clothiers always have been "gougers...