Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Owen Beaty, head of the S.M.U. English department and a member of the faculty for 34 years, had charged that the University was being taken over by what he called "powerful, non-Christian elements in our population." In a pamphlet entitled "How to Capture a University," Beaty had asked, "Are the minds of our students to be guided by B'nal Writh... or by Soviet Moscow... or by assorted devotees of the little world power which usurps the name of 'Israel...
This apparent lack of interest in politics during college is somewhat puzzling. For in 1952, only three years after he graduated, Schine wrote and circulated a pamphlet called "Definition of Communism" in which he warned of the menace and urged that "positive" counter steps be taken against Communism. Among these he listed the Marshall Plan, U.N. resistance in Korea, the North Atlantic Treaty and the Voice of America. This pamphlet was printed in large quantities and distributed on the bureaus of all his hotels...
...Gestapo? In a pamphlet called "How to Capture a University," Beaty charged that "a certain powerful, non-Christian element in our population" was trying to "dominate Southern Methodist University." For one thing, the university's own Southwest Review seemed to be highly susceptible not only to anti-McCarthy authors (e.g., President Henry Wriston of Brown University) but also to B'nai B'rith, which, according to Beaty, "is sometimes referred to as the 'Jewish Gestapo...
Last week, on the request of retiring President Lee, the trustees named a special committee to investigate the whole Beaty affair. But John Beaty was carrying on as usual. From his pen came another pamphlet, plaintively crying that the label "antiSemitic" was nothing but a smear aimed at people who are genuine antiCommunists. It certainly was not a tag that could possibly apply to good old John Beaty. "I have no feelings except feelings of friendship," said he, "for pro-American Jews...
After a careful study of the Randall Report on foreign trade, a group of 17 top economists condemned it in a pamphlet published last week for its "want of basic philosophy and for its failure to assert American leadership or to enlighten the American people as to their international responsibilities and opportunities. [It is] not a document from which the nation could derive inspiration...