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Professor Seavey, a former Dean of the Law School at the University of Nebraska, will uphold the Republicans on the theory that "Dewey, even in sneakers, is better than all the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Professors to Cover Election in Third Law Forum | 10/29/1948 | See Source »

Most so-called serious novelists have an ax to grind, a true bill to find, a point of view that they want to uphold regardless of how many opposing points of view they may have to howl down or ignore in the process. James Gould Cozzens is like his fellows in this respect-with one admirable difference. The point he insists on making is that the world is far too wrapped up in different points of view for any one of them to be entirely true, that "the Nature of Things abhors a drawn line and loves a hodgepodge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Human Odium | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...behind "the labors of our bipartisan delegation at Paris and specifically its insistence on a prompt lifting of the blockade of Berlin." Said Dewey: "The nations of the world can rest assured that the American people are in fact united in their foreign policy and will firmly and unshakably uphold the United Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Victory in the Air | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...genes which cannot be altered by ordinary environmental conditions). That belief made him a heretic in Russia, where science must take the Communist view that Environment Is All. Last year Zhebrak was roundly denounced by Pravda for admitting in the U.S. weekly, Science, that many Russian geneticists still uphold Mendel's laws (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dear Teacher ... | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...poll only complicated the Labor government's dilemma. To uphold the House of Commons, it might have to adopt a bill it had not really wanted. On the other hand, if it followed public opinion, it would be upholding the almost, but not quite, forgotten Lords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Tempest & the Tossed | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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