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Wisdom ended his testimony at 3:45 a.m. When the committee convened again after breakfast, several normally pro-Taft members, doubtless mindful of the television audience, seemed ready to vote with Ikemen on the Louisiana issue. Moving swiftly to convert a rout into a display of generosity, Ohio's ponderous Clarence Brown, leader of the committee's Taft forces, offered to do some trading...
...teachers now is to "make it clear that we fully understand that basic policy in all our institutions is, in the final analysis, to be determined by all the people through their elected representatives." Without abdicating their responsibilities, teachers must encourage criticism. "Some of the criticisms . . . will doubtless be unreasonable, prejudiced, unenlightened. If so, the proper way to deal with them will not be to slight them, or run away from them, or make countercharges . . . but rather to turn for guidance and assistance to the more reasonable and representative members of the community. . . If we work with the more thoughtful...
...paneled conference room one day in 1942, Advertising Man Albert Lasker and one of his biggest clients sat surrounded by their deputies and advisers. Lasker advanced an idea which nearly everyone else opposed. "Well, gentlemen." said Lasker as he began to back out of the room, "you're doubtless right, and I am wrong-so wrong that I've only made $40 million in this business...
Once nominated, Harriman would doubtless draw all the New Deal-Fair Deal support and the endorsement of organized labor. Like Stevenson, Harriman has the handicap of a past divorce (his second wife is the ex-wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt ["Sonny"] Whitney). Against Taft, his strong foreign-policy record might bring in some of the independent vote, but would pale as an asset if Eisenhower is the G.O.P. candidate...
...people believed, in all sincerity, that undue mental strain would cause women to have 'brain fever.'. . . Others, unable to imagine any other role for women but that of housewife and mother, felt that higher education was a complete waste of time and effort. And a third group, doubtless composed of the real benighted conservatives of the day, felt that college could only result in rendering [women] unfit or unwilling for marriage and motherhood." After reviewing the statistics, the book concludes : "By and large the Former Coed seems to be doing pretty well at marriage . . . Any theoretical fears that...