Word: toward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...influence the private lives of Catholic U. S. citizens as to marriage, morals, women's dress, co-education (he was against it), sex education, birth control. On the U. S. as a whole his efforts cannot be said to have had marked effect, unless they retarded inevitable progress toward more latitude in all these directions. One success was in furthering a self-imposed censorship of cinema (see p. 67). Catholic lobbies maintained in Washington to exert pressure on national legislation have had as their recent targets Child Labor legislation (against it), Federal control of education (against it), the embargo...
...autonomy may be desirable as a general rule, the president in exceptional circumstances is fully justified in exercising his prerogative of superior authority. Beyond this, it would be well for the Faculty Committee of Nine to undertake an investigation of the complete fine arts set-up, with a view toward evaluating the methods now used and those which might be introduced...
...happy faculty of satisfying both its admirers and detractors. Its admirers can always turn to it with the sure knowledge that they can recapture the exaltation of those years. Its detractors can rest assured that it will help many others, as it has helped us, on the path toward relentless isolationism. C. Avery Dulles '40 David Simboli...
...time to deal with the sufferings and the crisis of the Jewish race. Too much emotion has been wasted and vented on empty gestures. The Independents want to lead the way toward examining the problem impartially and setting it internationally...
...visit of a temperance delegation, "looking blue & thin in the keen autumnal air," or the tantrums of Mrs. Lincoln ("The Hell-cat is getting more Hell-cattical day by day."). Except where it touches Lincoln, the main note of his diary is one of caustic or amused astonishment, particularly toward Generals McClellan ("the little Napoleon . . . afraid either to fight or run") and Benjamin Butler ("His ignorance of war leads him constantly to require impossibilities from his subordinates and to fear impossibilities from the enemy...