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Warned Don Nelson: This is not "a panacea which will solve all the problems of small businessmen...
...member of either house of Congress has yet acknowledged that the real heart of the farm problem is too many farmers, and that prices are a symptom, not a cause. Any permanent cure for the difficulty must by nature be a gradual process, not a temporary profitable panacea...
...supervised tutorial this summer would be an insuperable burden. If limited to Seniors this summer and further restricted to men in Group IV or better next fall, the tutorial system in reality will have practically vanished. The group discussion method suggested for the next few months, while not a panacea nor even a proper substitute for the old plan, might well be expanded into a full wartime tutorial system. The possibilities of this will be discussed later. Right now it is essential that some arrangement be drawn up to permit the universal continuation of tutorial for the three upper classes...
When World War II began to inundate the world, he began to think about west ern civilization. He evolved a panacea, full of the gusty notions of Oswald Spengler. He proposed that the battling nations abandon their differences, present a united front against "foreign races." Among those he described as inferior aliens were the Mongols, the Persians and the Moors, who he feared would corrupt the blood stream of the west. That bloodstream, he pointed out, was our most precious pos session...
...misgivings are not the first that have been felt about tony Evangelist Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, who has led a series of hit-&-run house-party revivals, known successively as "Buchmanism," "A First Century Christian Fellowship," "The Oxford Group" and "Moral Re-Armament (MRA)." All have a free-&-easy panacea, best summed up in MRA's California drive last year: "You don't join anything, you don't pay anything, the idea is that you begin living the MRA standards...