Word: opener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tubman has eagerly thrown his country open to foreign investment, which he much prefers to gifts or loans ("That old Scriptural saying that a borrower is servant unto the lender holds true in every instance"). With a generous tax policy and no currency restrictions-the U.S. dollar is the medium of exchange-Liberia has attracted more than $120 million in foreign capital. The Italians are building roads, the West Germans are helping to develop a new port along the southern coast, and the Israelis are putting up a new hospital, hotel, treasury building and executive mansion. Goodrich is planting...
...British war effort, did not lose heart even when the Japanese swept down through Johore and captured Singapore. With his wife he swore off liquor until the British reconquest. When Johore was "liberated" in 1945, the joyous Sultan cried out: "Now we can break our vow. Open the champagne...
...Open Mind. Much of the discussion concerned the basic question of what role religion should play in tax-supported schools. Nobody was entirely satisfied with religious "lessons" by secular teachers. Rabbi Gordis decried handing over the work of church and home to public schools, which might develop a "religion-by-rote." Agnostic Lekachman agreed: "I consider religion to be much too important in human history to see it reduced to a patriotic exercise in the classroom...
...standards and teach religion as well? Agnostic Lekachman warmly supported the right of churches to maintain them, and just as warmly opposed tax aid for them. The public school has "primacy" in a free society, he felt, because it is "an ally of social tolerance, class fluidity, and the open mind." It is the one agent that may postpone choices "until they can become the acts of adults rather than the reflexes of children . . . The public school is too valuable to encourage alternatives to it." With much of this Rabbi Gordis agreed: "One can scarcely expect American society to help...
...quite happy to echo Mr. Valiuzhenich in our hopes for future exchanges. However, until such time as the Iron Curtain has withered away and good intentions are more reliable than at present, the best that we can hope is that we will continue the exchange with our eyes open and our idealism armed with the wisdom of past experience...