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Word: questionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard officials generally agreed that the question of joint exams was up to Radcliffe, since they felt that neither efficiency of operation nor financial savings was at stake. Harvard's Student Council declined to take a stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Move for Joint Examinations Killed As Radcliffe Officials Withdraw Plan | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

...second argument, and the one which Mr. Acheson is emphasizing, is that the aid would promptly lift morale in the countries getting it. Recent events support his theory; when the arms question was first mentioned, representatives of most of the Western European nations enthusiastically applauded the idea, and appeared with polite requests for various amounts of military gear totaling something over three billion dollars. The most frequent supporting line for the program, however, has been that the new lend-lease will tie the North Atlantic Treaty nations into a solid defensive bloc; Walter Bedell Smith summed this up by claiming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Arms for Europe | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

Professors Schlesinger and Cherington fought the question of concentration of power in government hands at the Free Enterprise Society's forum in the Littauer Auditorium last night. The topic was, "'The Fair Deal,' Its effect on our liberties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schlesinger and Cherington Argue Merits of 'Fair Deal' | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

...abundantly documented pages, there is scarcely a smile, unless it be a smile of derision, aimed, for instance, at the loyalty board man who asked a 'Mr. X,' "Did you ever attend any social affairs with your wife--organizations or associations where . . . liberal views were discussed?" But a question like this one is difficult to smile at for long, when you consider that it was asked by representatives of the U.S. government (which apparently has found that "liberal views" work well at the polls) of a ship-yard worker as a test of his loyalty to the nation. Rogge...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

...that monopolists don't give a damn for civil liberties, but Rogge dwells too much on the economic motivations for persecution. Even among the poorer citizens who do not hold "conglomerate acquisitions," there has been a decline in interest in civil rights. It is as much a question of political unsophistication and international queasiness as it is of mergers and monopolies...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: The Bookshelf | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

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