Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Question number one: Why vote for an organization that is going to serve as a nationwide megaphone for raucous, political minorities! Answer: Vote for it because it will not be political. It cannot be political. At the Chicago meeting last December, political groups, which formed a large percentage of the delegates present, were hushed to a quiet, ten percent voice. The Constitution, put together in Madison early this fall, cut out factional student groups completely. No religious or political organizations will receive representation in NSA. The Association, and its regional boards, will consist only of representatives from entire student bodies...
...Question number two: Why vote for a theoretical set-up--political or non-political--that will effect nobody but its delegates! Answer: Vote for NSA because is may well become the first student organization in the history of the, United States that will touch the majority of individual students. A list of its projected activities include work on student employment, student exchange with foreign countries, and racial discrimination in education...
...opinion of no less an authority than Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, famed Mayo Clinic internist, doctors should take a long, suspicious look at mineral oil. Said Fishbein, quoting Alvarez: "These observations raise the grave question . . . whether mineral oil can be used safely, year in and year out, as some persons use it; they also raise the question whether purveyors of food should ever be allowed to substitute mineral oil for the edible fats...
...Authors who preface their novels with the stock disclaimer-"Any resemblance ... is purely coincidental"-are also kidding themselves. Even a novelist who invents a wholly imaginary character can be sued, if a real person proves that the public could reasonably assume that he was being described. Says Wittenberg: "The question is not so much who was aimed...
...performance as the hero's Jewish friend; he has massaged Gregory Peck's normally musclebound manner into a good piece of acting as the journalist hero; and he has guided Dorothy McGuire's considerable talents through an adroitly banked and graded performance as the intelligent but question-begging heroine...