Word: rejections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this throws Elliott into a panic: American university students must be isolated from the real world until they have at least their Ph.D., to suit him. All the usual warnings against Communist domination serve Elliott as trimming for this otherwise unpalatable idea. But American students will reject the idea that they should leave all contact with the outside world to the wiser heads of Connally and Vandenberg. They have the "naive" idea that the answer to world problems is not the atom bomb and the man-made plague. They will be wary of anyone who tries to fool them. That...
...Personally, I reject Communism ... I am convinced that democracy is a better society than dictatorship can build and that the su est way to destroy dictatorship abroad is to establish democracy at home; but it must be a democracy that preserves political liberty and uses it to establish equality and fraternity...
...more than he bargained for. After a three-day battle the right-wingers emerged with a resolution stating that the committee members "resent and reject efforts of the Communist Party or other political parties and their adherents to interfere in the affairs of the C.I.O. This convention serves notice that we will not tolerate such interference...
...observation. On 27 previous occasions U.S. Presidents had had to contend with at least one branch of Congress controlled by a hostile party. The father of Senator Robert Taft had spent two particularly anguished years of deadlock. A sick and beaten Woodrow Wilson had watched an antagonistic Republican Senate reject his League. Hapless Herbert Hoover had scolded and quarreled while a Democratic House hamstrung him throughout the desperate end of his divided Administration...