Word: voluntarisme
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An important aspect of this American tradition of voluntarism, Adams said, is the exclusion of religious elements from public-school education, and the denial of public funds to parochial and church-related schools.
Hands-Off Policy. Too many economists, writes Myrdal, seem mesmerized by the French economy, which is heavily nationalized and regimented. Sweden, he suggests, should be their model instead. Both Swedish workers and employers have voluntarily formed central organizations for collective bargaining. These groups consider the national interest when they make...
Pointing out that undergraduates come to Princeton "seeking status" Joel Davidow rejected the bi-weekly mixer plan. He produced a counter proposal, "one based on the great American principle of self-restraint." An education committee, composed of Norman Vincent Peale, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and Elizabeth Taylor should tour the...
This time the White House kept hands off-despite intervention pleas by the L. & N management and the governors of Kentucky, Tennessee and Illinois. Some observers were sharply critical, pointing out that the walkout was the longest major rail strike since 1922 and was marked with violence. Snapped the New...
Compulsory Volunteering. The U.S. thought back to the whoopla, the tormented emotions, the naked coercion of the Liberty Loan drives of World War I, and it didn't like what it remembered. Houses of non-buyers, then, were painted yellow by vigilantes. Citizens were free to buy voluntarily-provided...