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...long considered it. Spearheaded by such people as Ellis Arnall, Lillian Smith, and perhaps the most progressive press of any state in the Union, Georgia has become the inspiration for all those who work and dream of a forward-looking, democratic, South. The nomination of Talmadge, which is tantamount to election, puts in jeopardy all the advances made since 1941. If the dream of a new South is not to end in nightmare, then the people of Georgia must quietly resolve to defend with all their strength the social legislation of the past five years-and to destroy the antiquated...
President Conant's dictum is that the foundation of good teaching is creative research. The yardstick of the ad hoe committee, whose recommendations for permanent tenure are almost tantamount to election, has been the amount of published research done by the individual instructor. In so many words, this means that an instructor must, before his alloted time runs out, spend most of his time and effort in somehow culling sufficient material for a book out of the big research libraries of the country. This effort is made necessarily at the expense of his tutoring, no matter how implicitly he might...
...opening blast of Minnesota's Harold Knutson, ranking Republican of the Ways & Means Committee, suggested that there would be no glad surprises for those who hope for freer world trade. Said he, in an echo of the palmy days of isolationism: "This [tariff reduction] would be tantamount to signing a death warrant for hundreds of businesses and throwing tens of thousands of workers out of employment. Republicans in the House will fight it to the last ditch...
...Donnell was in for a disappointment. By week's end, few Catholic newspapers had risen to the bait. In Washington, the Rev. Dr. Edgar Schmiedeler, a Catholic welfare official, promptly issued a widely-syndicated press statement: "I think some of Mrs. Roosevelt's remarks are tantamount-unwittingly so, of course-to a decided disservice to the country. . . ." In Boston, the usually aggressive Pilot was quite calm: "Read carefully, read very carefully, Mrs. Roosevelt's statement might pass muster. Possibly it's correct that we should encourage 'really good families,' rather than 'indiscriminate large...
...this California's New Dealing Jerry Voorhis replied: "This bill is tantamount to an invitation to the insurance business to indulge in monopolistic practices...