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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leadership, as befits these new times." There was little in the record to suggest that Studebaker would be more radical than his dictum that one hour homework nightly is plenty for children. It looked as though Governor Edison would get the man he wanted - if Boss Hague could not prevent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hague Again | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...Times states indignantly that "For the most part the students thought that our policy had been to prevent immigration, to send them missionaries, and exploit her." It all depends on the point of view, and emphases differ. A number of Harvard Faculty men say they would give credit for those "errors...

Author: By Robert S. Landau, | Title: 'Times' American History Survey A Farce | 4/7/1943 | See Source »

...Washington this week a big spotlight was thrown on one of the most important, least understood U.S. laws. The renegotiation law was passed by Congress last April to govern the process whereby the Army & Navy regularly negotiate their war-production contracts over & over again to prevent excessive war profits. In the spotlight was a lucid, compact 19-page report by the Senate's hard-working Tru man Investigating Committee. The report lambasted the four price boards (Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Treasury) for "confusion [and] too much secrecy," and suggested improvements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROFITS: Sense In War Contracts | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...Russian in 1939 and inhabited largely not by Poles but by White Russians and Lithuanians; the Ukraine; Bessarabia; and bits of Bukovina and Moldavia. If, in addition to gaining these wide territories for protection against Germany, he is convinced that the Western Allies will take effective measures to prevent a future German menace to Russia, it is more than likely that Stalin will be satisfied to let them undertaker the task. It is therefore of the utmost importance that the other United Nations should come to an understanding as soon as possible with Russia as to the establishment of some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fay Condemns Rash Anti-German Hysteria | 4/2/1943 | See Source »

...promises not kept and stabbed in the back by unpatriotic elements within Germany. Faith in the invincibility of the German army remained and the incubus of Prussian militarism on the German mind was not broken. In face of this the victors did not cooperate, to enforce the peace, to prevent aggression, and to solve the problem of the security of France and of the small nations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KOHN CALLS ENFORCED LAW BETWEEN NATIONS 'THE ALTERNATIVE TO CHAOS' | 3/31/1943 | See Source »

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