Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...message to Congress last week, the President outlined his National Defense Advisory Commission's plans to get first call on industrial facilities for defense. Theme of these plans (and of all the War & Navy Departments' industrial mobilization charts) was voluntary cooperation. Nevertheless a hard vein ran through the Commission's silky words ("There should be ... honest and sincere desire to cooperate ... in producing what is called for, and on time, without profiteering; to assume some risks . . . rather than attempting to shift all such risks to the Government . . ."). Formulator of these standards was not Mr. Roosevelt, but business...
...crowded Union meeting was presided over by Dean Leighton, in the absence of Dean Chase. Throughout the evening the dominant theme was the "free development of the individual" at Harvard, as contrasting with totalitarian regimentation abroad...
Folkways is not so startling today as when it was published 33 years ago. Its basic theme - that the development of society is governed by hard evolutionary principles-is now taken for granted by every educated person. At that time this knowledge was still largely an academic possession. The first application of Darwinian theory to human customs and institutions had been made by Huxley. From Huxley, Sumner went on, demolishing one cherished faith after another, with what he called "shovelfuls of facts...
...union would do the same. Laundryman Shaw was sold, but it took him three months to get the other owners to agree. Finally they put up $32,000. Last week the campaign, scheduled for mid-September in local newspapers, was in the hands of an advertising agency. Its tentative theme song: "Home is no place to do the laundry...