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Joseph Goldstein is an elderly New York lawyer and ex-city magistrate who likes to tilt at educational windmills-and sometimes bowls them over. In 1940 he helped unseat Bertrand Russell from a teaching chair at the College of the City of New York on the grounds that Russell's writings were "lecherous, salacious . . . lustful." Last week Goldstein took off on another joust: unless two books which he considered "a menace" were banned from classrooms and public-school libraries within five days, he threatened to sue the Board of Education. The two books were Oliver Twist (the British film...
Because of this, the rumor persisted that he planned to unseat Tobin. But he has enormous power with Tobin in office and will probably get more. The notion that he is scheming to succeed Bill Green as president of the A.F.L. also seems unsound-it is a post to which strong men are not elected...
Business Over All. In matters of education, Laski believes, the businessman is the trustee who can (and does) seat and unseat college presidents, purge faculties. He dominates radio; his stake in Hollywood virtually ensures movie mediocrity because he will not risk his enormous investment by risking "offense to any large source of profit." He supports the church, but often, says Laski, because his conception of religion is like that of the late Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts, who said: "In the long run, it is only to the man of morality that wealth comes . . . Godliness is in league with riches...
...that first defeat only made Grundy, Owlett & Co. more determined than ever to unseat the rebel. Scenting the fight, Deweymen rushed in to exploit the Grundy-Owlett wrath. It was an incongruous alliance. In the very week that Tom Dewey was urging reciprocal trade extension in Boston, Grundy's Doylestown Daily Intelligencer was editorially burning free-trade heretics at the stake. It was not that Joe Grundy distrusted Tom Dewey less; it was a case of distrusting Jim Duff more...
Senate reaction was prompt and vociferous. Georgia's Senator Walter George warned that such searing condemnation was fine fuel for Communist propagandists. Others thought the report might be enough to unseat the whole Chiang regime...