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...great deal less partisan and petulant sounded Philip Murray's Industry Council Plan. As a substitute for $1-a-year men and the confusion of Government boards and bureaus overlapping one another like shingles on a roof, Murray would set up over each basic industry a council of workers and managers, presided over by a Government-appointed chairman. Councils would coordinate all the facilities, materials, manpower in their separate industrial fields, so that steel, for example, would pour out as though from one great nationwide plant. Over all the councils would sit a National Defense Board. His plan, said...
Only goats were the tankers. They moved swiftly, without traffic jams, did well all the basic things they had learned. But they were cast in a strange role: the defensive. Instead of fighting in great surprise attacks, they were used piecemeal. And when they did swing around the flanks in the end runs they like best, they found Blue troops waiting for them...
...against Military Intervention, maintained that our entry into the war would mean curtailment of these liberties and that chances did not favor getting them back, especially considering the tendencies of those now in power in Washington. Fisher, a member of the Harvard Liberal Union, pointed out that the four basic freedoms had not suffered either here after the war or in England at present...
...Look at the Birdie!" At Manhattan's Academy of Medicine Dr. John Galloway Lynn, Dr. Kelley's friend, delivered a paper on "Mimetic smiledness as related to handedness: an indicator of basic modes of human adaptation." He described his "smilometer," a wooden box almost five feet long filled with machinery as intricate as a Rube Goldberg invention. At one end an oval opening is cut out for a patient to insert his face. Inside the box is: I) a time clock; 2) a movie projector which reels off Mickey Mouse or The Ugly Duckling on a small translucent...
...solution to our errors we readily concede is peace and reason. We cannot set up new principles until we comprehend the facts of the new order. But when the crisis comes in the form of force, we desert reason and strike at froth; we ignore basic ends to oppose immoral means; we forestall any real solution to the end of a bitterly destructive war. I cannot see this policy as the assertion of what we hold most dear: faith in the intelligence of ourselves and our common man to work out a decent destiny through reason. Hence I would favor...