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...Muscle Shoals), TVA does not expect to exploit these resources. Once a gobbler of private utilities, David Lilienthal is now engaged in creating attractions for private capital to come to his Valley. At the same time ("We have obligations to the country as a whole.") he has to avoid acting like a local Chamber of Commerce. The metamorphosis in his character and reputation is locally known as "the dehorning of Dave." Says he nowadays: "I hold no truck with master planning. You can't carry people around. In the first place they don't want...
Lester G. Hawkins '41 contributes an article on Liberalism and War, in which he concludes that "the liberals have come a long way in the past quarter century," and "in the event of full intervention by the United States there is reason to believe that the liberal movement will avoid another debacle and emerge instead with its nativist tradition developed and with a greatly enhanced access to political power." A discussion of more personalities and publication of both periods, plus a consideration of the actual war legislation (1916 and 1940) in connection with the issues of "undemocratic abuses" and "planning...
...intellectual circles and its penetration down through the educational system. Yet, in his latest book, "Chart for Rough Water", he takes the stand for which undergraduates are accused of being faithless and skeptical, and says, "We must try, it seems to me plain, by every intelligent means to avoid physical involvement...
Because most of the Monday registrations in former years have come between 10 and 12 o'clock in the morning, upperclassmen are advised to register early to avoid crowds and to speed up the process of getting through Memorial Hall...
...urged that this independence be conserved by members of the Class of '44, rather than wasted in "banjo-playing and beer-drinking." Recognizing that "these are challenging times," we should "avoid irritating partisan discussions and go after the real problems," in the spirit he summed up by the motto "For Harvard, for Country...