Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the U.A.W. got another sign that things were going to be tough all over. Ford replied to the union's opening demands for a 30?-an-hour raise with an answer the union could only consider a countercheck quarrelsome-a proposal that Ford workers take a cut instead. Said Ford Vice President John S. Bugas: "We think the American people are tired of negotiations which seem to have no other aim besides gain for all parties except the consumers." Ken Bannon, U.A.W. Ford director, retorted: if the company would exert its influence with industry...
...young assistant professor in Harvard College wondered what men thought they could do with the education they got in the Yard. Henry Adams asked one of his students that question one day. The answer: "The degree of Harvard College is worth money to me in Chicago...
...have disappeared from Cambridge since Henry Adams and 1871, but not the absence of ideals implicit in the reply of the gentleman from Chicago. Harvard College is worth a great many different things to different people in 1948, but there are few undergraduates beyond their Sophomore year who could answer: "I am here because I want to learn, and I am learning." Most men would have no answer at all, or they might say they are at Harvard because they have nothing else they would rather...
Henry Adams was upset by the answer to his question, and there is good reason for educational philosophers to be disturbed by the replies of today. People prate of colleges providing young men with "practical experience" or "social stability" or "the free mind," but no formal educational process can call itself a success unless it gives to its recipients, along with facts and experience, the desire and ability to learn...
...footrace and subsequently assigned a Mr. Milton Krims to fill in the required screen play. The same Mr. Krims can be significantly remembered for his other scenario--"Confessions of a Nazi Spy." The sure fire true story of the Canadian Soviet spy ring naturally presented itself as his answer: the results could hardly be other than socko for the Box Office. That is, as long as the wind from Capitol Hill and the Kremlin and stockholders such as Henry Luce, didn't change...