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...achieve if our public schools remain the primary vehicle for the education of our youth, and if as far as possible, all the youth of a community attend the same school irrespective of family fortune or cultural background. Diversity in experimentation we maintain by continued emphasis on the concept of local responsibility for our schools...
...appear before the televised Kefauver committee meeting in Manhattan. Last week Dewey made it clear that his attitude has not changed. In signing a bill outlawing televised public hearings in the state of New York, Dewey added a strong supporting message charging that it is "basic to our concept of justice that a witness compelled to testify have a fair opportunity to present his testimony. No right is more basic to our traditional liberties. The use of television, motion- pictures and radio at such proceedings impairs this basic right...
...fellow citizens who are being hit where it hurts them most. For years they approved a dishonest tax, and they deserve all they get. Unscrupulous politicians have always understood that they could depend upon the votes of those who are moved by "envy, malice and all uncharitableness." The Marxian concept of graduated income and inheritance taxes was made to order for them . . . The Communist Manifesto advocated ten measures which should be adopted in order to bring about a dictatorship of the proletariat. Two of these measures were: "A heavy progressive or graduated income tax," and "Abolition of all right...
...Government has been forced to drop seven of its original points, along with one defendant-the Investment Bankers Association. The core of the Government's case remains a "triple concept": 1) certain bankers traditionally underwrite negotiated securities for certain corporations, 2) these "traditional bankers" divide a constant proportion, of any subsequent deals with the people who were in on the first one, and 3) junior members of these banking groups, when they get a deal to handle themselves, repay the big boys by asking them to join. By this "syndicate system," said the Government, all the defendants had-conspired...
Newby said the program, which was originated in 1948, "is in line with the fundamental concept of the Harvard Placement Office: an educational approach to placement, where the student benefits both by getting the most advantageous job and also gets experience finding the job and meeting people...