Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance," he cried, "to help decide whether or not Harry Truman is going to be the future President of the United States. He is a man totally unfitted for the position. His principles are elastic and he is careless with the truth. He has no special knowledge on any subject and he is a malignant, scheming sort of an individual who is dangerous not only to the United Mine Workers, but dangerous to the United States of America...
Obviously, it required exact and uniform standards of measurement. Lack of standard measurements messed up the trade between the American colonies; though the U.S. Constitution directed Congress to fix the standards of weights & measures, Congress did nothing about it for 80 years. Congressmen were passionately interested in the subject, but they could not agree. Repeatedly Washington begged Congress to pass a standardization law; in 1795 he suggested that the U.S. adopt the new French metric system. Jefferson thought he had a better idea: he wanted a system based on the length of a uniform cylindrical pendulum which...
...Congress finally got around to its duty on measurements;'it backed into the subject by defining a meter in terms of inches, although it had never (and has not yet) defined an inch. Its definition of the meter was inaccurate in terms of the British inch, so when Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, head of the Office of Weights & Measures, defined in 1893 an inch as .02540005+ parts of a meter, the U.S. inch and the British inch came to differ by .000004. (This later got bargained out in an informal compromise...
...conference got under way in a blaze of imperialist hope & glory. Leopold Amery, former Secretary of State for India, while supporting economic cooperation in Europe, denounced the idea of a European federation. "We can never subject our loyalty to Crown and Empire to some outside authority." The conference came out against freer trade, and for the Empire preference system...
...irritated, puzzled or just curious people would like to know the answer. So would the editors of LIFE. They invited 15 critics and connoisseurs to a "round table" to discuss the whole baffling subject. Among them were conservatives like New York's Metropolitan Museum Director Francis Henry Taylor and such ardent defenders of the new faith as James Johnson Sweeney and Columbia's able Professor Meyer Schapiro. After two days' discussion, the fog was thick, but an island of agreement seemed to loom in it. Last week LIFE tried to survey the island through...