Word: rufflers
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...Examine the Assumptions." "Uncle Charlie," as his Columbia students called him, was also a great ruffler of conventional thought. He resigned from Columbia in 1917 over the dismissal of two non-interventionist colleagues, though he himself was in favor of U.S. entry into World War I. The New York Times congratulated the university on its "deliverance" from such a radical. He was forever popping up-at congressional hearings, protest meetings, or with a new book-to attack Hearst, or Wall Street, the "intellectual bankruptcy of conservatism," or the internationalists and their "giddy minds." No one ever quite knew what...
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