Word: smith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Catholic for President: "My vote would never be changed on the basis of . . . religion," but he was unwilling to speculate on a Roman Catholic candidate's chances of being elected in 1960. "I have no opinion whatsoever," said he. "Al Smith was nominated, and he was defeated. I don't know whether the thinking of the country has changed...
...time did Senator Smith tell me of her intentions, and actually, the "worn tally sheet" shows that only a few hours before the vote, I listed Senator Smith as one of those likely to vote for confirmation...
...known and a darling of Wall Street: Polaroid. Edwin Herbert Land, 50, the founder-president who left Harvard to work on his first polarized light project in 1926 and later invented the Polaroid Land camera, actively cultivates an academic atmosphere in the plants. Every year he hires a few Smith or Wellesley girls for laboratory work, considers them a prime source of fresh ideas. Several have made notable contributions to Polaroid's quick photography. "Everyone," says Land, "whether he is a worker on the assembly line or a scientist in the lab, has some real urge and need...
Another U.S. revolution from which Europe has everything to learn is the social and industrial one. According to Bruckberger, the U.S. has defanged and debunked the class struggle. Europe's classical capitalist economists, e.g., Adam Smith, Ricardo, held that the worker was forever doomed to a ''minimum subsistence wage.'' Karl Marx said, in effect: ''Sheep of all countries, unite! Together we shall bring about the Revolution of the sheep and . . . eat the wolves.'' Quite apart from the typical European unrealism of this notion, Bruckberger points out, what the Russian people...