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What Friedman meant--and made quite clear--was that a federal law requiring the fair employment of Negroes would be unenforceable in the face of popular bias, and that because of the resulting corruption of the market mechanism in this sphere, the Negro would continue to suffer serious underemployment. Under the conditions of a free market, he went on, the prejudiced employer would be free to refuse employment to Negroes, but by so doing he would force the price of Negro labor down and give incentive for less biased employers to hire more Negroes. In this context, Professor Friedman...
What wonders of geological science are open to him who will behold "The Symmes theory of concentric spheres, demonstrating that the earth is hollow, habit-able within, and widely open about the poles" (Louisville, 1878) and C. Reed Teed's "The cellular cosmogony, or, The earth a concave sphere" (Chicago...
Arcs & Ranges. If the continents are moving away from each other across the Atlantic, they must be moving toward each other across the Pacific, because the earth is a sphere and they have nowhere else to go. As they move, their leading edges push against the crust of the ocean bottom, sometimes thrusting it down in deep trenches, sometimes bending it upward to form curving arcs of islands, like Japan. High mountain ranges like the Andes rear up behind the edges of the advancing continents, and where the rocks bend and break, lines of volcanoes spout their fire...
...legal sphere, Miss Arendt condemned the "cog" theory as moral evasion. This theory argues that a functionary, like Eichmann, is not responsible for the criminal action of the government whose command he obeys. The courts should not deal with "systems" or "isms," but persons, she added...
...addition to his expertise in the foreign sphere, Lodge can claim a wide range of experience in domestic affairs. He was elected to three terms in the Senate, serving a total of 13 years. Before that he sat in the Massachusetts State Legislature for two terms. This full spectrum of experience would make him a tougher opponent for Johnson than some of the other possible nominees, like Scranton, for instance...