Word: statement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group's unanimous statement, which referred both to colleges and secondary schools, explained, "Such membership, in the opinion of the Educational Policies Commission, involves adherence to doctrines and discipline completely inconsistent with the principles of academic freedom on which American education depends...
...Educational Policies Commission was appointed by the National Education association and the American Association of School Administrators. Its position on Communist teachers was part of a 54-page statement on "American Education and International Tensions," released yesterday in Washington...
However, the fact the statement did cover colleges, as well as secondary schools, was made clear yesterday by a spokesman for the NEA office in Washington. The spokesman said the policy would apply to all educational institutions...
...statement dark with implications, Van Zandt demanded a full-scale investigation of "the unusually large purchases of aircraft [by the Air Force] from Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., controlled by Floyd Odium, a contributor to the Democratic campaign, and a company of which Louis Johnson was, until three days after his nomination as Secretary of Defense, a director and Washington counsel...
...daughter-in-law. Had these been his last words, the great Johann Wolfgang might today seem more human and approachable than generations of followers have made him out to be. Unfortunately he said later: "Open the blind of the other window, so that more light may come in!" This statement (abbreviated to the more impressive command: "More light!") has become Goethe's epitaph, supposedly expressing his yearning that greater illumination might come to the hearts of men. Somewhere along the road the "little paw" has been nearly forgotten...