Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris mansion. He was a passionate hunter and a bad shot. He maintained a private game preserve near Paris, but, said a friend last week, he "never went in for displays of wealth. That would not occur to him." In the '30s, the world was swept by a pacifist wave of indignation against the Undershafts and the De Wendels. The clamor against the "merchants of death" was largely justified, but its main effect was to keep the U.S. and Britain from being well enough prepared to prevent World...
...pronouncement split Olivet right in two. The anti-Ashby faction found powerful leaders on the faculty. Among them were Economist Tucker P. Smith, head of the Olivet Teachers' Union and the 1948 Socialist candidate for Vice President, and Pacifist Carleton Mabee, of the history department, winner in 1944 of the Pulitzer Prize for biography (The American Leonardo). Student intellectuals lined up behind Smith as a Student Action Committee. "The S.A.C.'s," jeered Ashbyite Clark Balch, a 30-year-old senior and football tackle, "are the kind of people who like art and music and stay up till...
Bertie still was. In 1918, he was clapped into jail for his pacifist views, spent his 6 months' sentence writing his Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. Lawrence got out of England in 1919, but he never really forgave Bertie. "Have you ever seen him in a bathing dress?" he sneeringly asked a friend...
...stated purpose of the newly formed society is to hold general meetings with lectures by pacifist leaders and to conduct small independent groups to study religious, humanitarian, and ethical pacifist theories. The organization's 18 members have already formed three such study groups...
Albert A. Berman '49, secretary and sole officer of the society, revealed last night that the organization will try to get H.A. Musty, "the country's leading pacifist," and Reinhold Niebuhr, "leading religious apologist for war," to stage a debate here during reading period...