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...House of early U.S. discrimination against the Irish Catholic, vehemently upheld FEPC. "We are [God's] creatures," he cried, "and we are entitled to receive from each other the love He bade us give." Harlem's Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, pilot of the Administration bill, quoted Daniel Webster in railing against the McConnell substitute: "A law without a penalty is simply good advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Affairs, Mar. 6, 1950 | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...discovery made in the far reaches of Webster, which defines it as "imaginative projection of one's own consciousness into another being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Oceans of Empathy | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

More an administrator than a scientist, Nominee Webster is an old hand at controlling the explosive combination of scientists in government. A graduate of the Naval Academy (1920), he took a master's degree at M.I.T., served six years in the Naval Construction Corps before he resigned to work for the New England Power Association. Later he served as chairman of the Military Liaison Committee, whose job is to keep the Pentagon within hailing distance of atomic developments, became a consultant for the Joint Research and Development Board, military ancestor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Evaluator | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...Webster will be responsible for testing and evaluating such new weapons and new techniques as guided missiles, rocket-firing submarines, bacteriological warfare. His most crucial responsibility: the hydrogen bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Evaluator | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...dear sir, a crusade against ignorance," Thomas Jefferson had cried; but the crusade was to roll and swell beyond even Jefferson's wildest dreams. The nation passed through the age of the one-room district schoolhouse, of the birch rod and the rattan cane, the primer, Noah Webster's famous speller and the Me Guff ey readers. Ever since the indefatigable Horace Mann had stormed through Massachusetts preaching the cause of better schools ("In a Republic, Ignorance is a Crime!"), successive generations of young Americans had been learning the three Rs as Dart of their birthright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pattern of Necessity | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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