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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that article your Milwaukee correspondent says that the character "John Steele" in my play, To the End of Time, is John Lewis. I merely wish to say that I have no control over anybody's personal opinion. Nor is that particular feature in his report the one that motivates this letter. What I have in mind is a certain very important inaccuracy-albeit undoubtedly an inadvertent one-in your article: your correspondent said that I obtained my finances from the "antilabor overlords" of Milwaukee. That is not true even in the very slightest degree! And if ever it becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...John Lewis' personal, destructive ambition. True to A. F. of L. tradition, Author Green insists that Labor's base and strength are in the shop, that political activity must be nonpartisan and secondary. But, surveying the corporate structure of modern business, he worriedly notes "points of control which Labor cannot reach by collective bargaining alone," goes on to preach Government regulation (and even ownership of railroads), when & where private enterprise "cannot alone adjust itself to new conditions." Near the end of his timid tome, he tentatively concludes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Bannerless Man | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

They proposed, for example, that in hygiene classes pupils be taught how the sex impulse and its control affects the nervous system. In physical education courses they should learn 1) that direct sex experience is not necessary for health, 2) that adolescents can find other outlets for their energies. By frank discussion of literature (e.g., The Scarlet Letter, Idylls of the King), they may be enlightened about sex as a motive in general human conduct. Sex may raise its head in girls' home economics classes: "The teacher has an opportunity to bring up . . . the effects produced on the feelings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Open Sexame | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

They propose as remedies that the Faculty be given control over educational policy; that undergraduate opinions should be consulted; that "a dean with close Faculty connections" should take over the duties of Financial Vice President; and that a standing Faculty Committee on the Budget should be appointed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guardian Runs Pro and Con Articles On Administration's Tenure Program | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

Next week Harvard is scheduled to meet Mt. Holyoke on the subject "Government Censorship and Control of Communications." This will be a New England hookup over station WAAB, as was the St. John's debate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATING TEAM LOSES | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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