Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other sections of the article describe how Conant "has stepped on the toes of conservative alumni," quoting an Atlantic Monthly article of a few years back, entitled "Wanted: American Radicals," in which the President wrote "to prevent the growth of a caste system, (the American radical) will be resolute in his demands to confiscate... all property once a generation." Roosevelt says that "Conant has subsequently modified this statement considerably...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, said yesterday that the North Atlantic Pact "will prevent Russia from starting a war in desperation to stir up the spirit of nationalism in the Russian people...
Presence and votes of the representative body will theoretically prevent the permanent body, which does practically all the work of the Key, from becoming "clubby." According to members of the Crimson Key at the Council meeting, this clique atmosphere would eventually destroy the practical value of the Key organization...
...Congressional Record will prove that tremendous amounts of time have been consumed by committees and individual members talking about the "Red menace." In state legislatures, the diversion of energies is worse. Here the hysteria has resulted in definite action: the New York legislature now has a bill which would prevent anyone who backs "theories contrary to the Constitution" from voting or holding office...
...There is nothing," declared the prosecuting attorney, "to prevent boys and girls at any hour from visiting each other in their bedrooms, and it is done." The court was told by the prosecutor that once, when one teen-aged boy dared another to seduce the school's middle-aged housekeeper, Assistant Headmaster Edward Reynolds had cracked, "I'll bet you a pound to a penny that you don't." Another witness said that the children were forever talking about sex in "short Anglo-Saxon words." A former matron at the school admitted having given one girl...