Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...runs on, it has become evident that the people of the United States have tremendous confidence in ... John N. Garner. We have, therefore, organized a general committee looking to the drafting of JOHN NANCE GARNER for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. ... Are you willing to help us in this aim...
What M. Daladier wanted, he said, was a "blend of nationalism and democracy" in France: "It is our aim to reconcile the spirits which stormed the Bastille and defended Verdun." When the Popular Front won the elections of 1936, Edouard Daladier became War Minister, under Leon Blum, serving as part of France's New Deal which ousted the 200 families from control of the Bank of France, which established the , 40-hour week, which refused to crack down on sit-down strikers. When reaction to these measures finally forced out Socialist Blum for good, a less radical leader came...
...abolition of freedom of electives--the ideal of Lowell and Conant--in the first two years of college. The Council committee feels, however, that this is bitter but necessary--the price of a truly liberal education. Its "area" courses are not to be superficial survey courses; they will aim to be penetrating, comprehensive courses, possessing all the thoroughness and vigor or History I, and backed up by essay-type examinations instead of the true-false exercises necessary in an overly broad "civilization" course...
...newspapers or even to the students" is an overly cynical attitude. There were at least three tangible results. First, the year of study has given some the opportunity to learn a type of reporting often neglected or very poorly done. Thus good reporting of new scientific developments was the aim of one man's study; another dwelt on the difficult field of South American relations. Secondly, the Nieman Fellowships have enabled "small-town" editors to gain a perspective on the larger problems of government and international relations. This year there was but one editor of the "country" type; among next...
...decade, in "doing something" about the lives of its members. The Group's principle: if men are changed, nations will change, the world will change. To many Protestant churchmen-but to few Catholics (most of whom deny the reality of Buchmanite "change")-this is a praiseworthy and exciting aim. Hence many a Protestant, conscious of the unhappy shortcomings of his church, gives his support to the happy shortcuts of the Oxford Group, rather than hinder something which may do some good. Buchmanism's brisk conversions (drunks into teetotal testifiers, golfing brokers into junior wardens, black sheep into white...