Word: professionalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"The key to Mr. Roosevelt is that he is a politician-a politician not in the sense of invidious epithet, but in the sense of the name of the profession skilled in gaming, keeping and wielding political power, often for praiseworthy ends. . . .
...oven-hot flatlands of southwest Texas last week traveled some 90 U.S. professional men to listen to learned lectures, to watch exhibitions of technique, to talk shop. They looked like any other group of scientists or educators, except that they wore khaki. In a sense they were educators: The deans and professors of the science of aerial warfare. Their profession: killing Japs and Nazis on the wing. Their special field: the high and delicate art of fixed gunnery, practiced in fighter planes while moving several hundred miles an hour...
Professor Hooton argues that "our supreme social need is the scientific improvement of marriage and reproduction." Claiming that the solution is "medical and genetic supervision of marriages bound to produce inferior offspring, subsidization of parents proved capable of breeding superior offspring, and sterilization of the insane, feeble-minded, and habitually...
Scholarly, balding, 42 -year-old Kenneth Norman Stewart's peripatetic newspaper career spans the continent and the period between two world wars (he is now with OWI, soon returns to New York City's PM). Working on many papers and on many big stories, he has seen the...
Many an honest U.S. newspaperman was outraged last week by flashy, pompous New York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell, whose hatred for Franklin Roosevelt* and all his works sometimes leads him to flout the standards of his own profession. O'Donnell wrote, as a plain statement of...