Word: toolings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taylor conceded that "in the work of the past [there are] clues for dealing with the present" but argued that "an exclusive concern [with] the classical curriculum has failed in the past and will fail today. ... It may be that education is not a strong enough social tool to maintain the survival of civilization. However, one can look for more in it than Mr. Hutchins' pious hope that if we go down, we will go down talking...
...canned" arguments. The members of the American delegation whom I met were especially depressing. One sweet young thing continually harped on the theme that most of the people in America didn't know what they were doing when they fought against Communism, that they were just "unwitting tools of reaction." She was sincere I think, but I was quite unable to impress her with the fact that she herself was the tool of forces considerably more dangerous...
...seemed to reverse the process of Anglo-Saxon law-which assumes that the accused is innocent until proved guilty. It seemed to violate the spirit, if not the letter, of their constitutional rights. Also, the ten had apparently been convicted of disloyalty on mere "derogatory information," which was the tool of a police state and not a democracy...
Hughes took the offensive again. He charged that the investigation's motive was to smear Elliott Roosevelt. He put white-haired Noah Dietrich, vice president of the Hughes Tool Co., in the witness chair. Witness Dietrich gave his version of a conversation with Committee Investigator Flanagan in California last March. He said he told Flanagan...
Bible Belting. When Quincy Beltram of the International Edge Tool Co. of Newark, NJ. was asked by the state mediation board why he had fired eleven workers who had joined a C.I.O. union, he said he was following the biblical exhortation: "Cast out the scorner and strife shall cease." On his return to the plant, Beltram, who presides at daily Bible classes for his workers, found that the lessons had sunk in. Pickets greeted him with a sign on which they too quoted freely from the Bible: "Masters, give unto your workers that which is just and equal." After another...