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Traditional American optimism and traditional American isolationist sentiment have both gone to pot. The American people are gloomy about their post-war future -but they want the U.S. to take larger part in world affairs after the war is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC OPINION: Fear, But Not of Entanglement | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...every one of these communities, as well as in every draft camp, Americans are coming face to face with the problems of discrimination which have too long blemished our national scene. This time these problems can not be dodged. Out of the racial and class melting pot of the army camps can come a new understanding which will spread over the nation. --From the Vassar Miscellany News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/27/1941 | See Source »

Most ironical of all is a Dartmouth representative's attempt to brand Harvard as provincial. Provincial in our own indifferent way we may be, but for Dartmouth to cast the term in our faces is a case of the pot's calling the virgin snow black...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green Is For Envy | 11/13/1941 | See Source »

...President's decree forbidding the arming of Panamanian merchant ships. In Washing ton Secretary of State Cordell Hull foot noted last fortnight's coup with a documented statement proving that the U.S. had not put so much as its little finger into Panama's political pot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: The Doctor Leaves the Country | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

South End House, founded at the turn of the century in a melting pot of immigrant Syrians, Armenians, Canadians, French Canucks, Italians, Germans, and Scandinavians, is representative of the 38 settlement houses and other agencies to which PBH sends most of it's social service workers. Reputedly the largest boarding house area in the world, the South End district produces hundreds of kids whose only haven from the littered streets is a scanty number of recreational and instructional centers similar to the South End House...

Author: By Charles S. Borden, | Title: Brooks House Bridges Town-Gown Gap | 10/22/1941 | See Source »

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