Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...just returned to Tokyo from a tour of China, where he had cabled a series of six stories on the progress of Japan's undeclared war. Wrote Jimmy Young from Hong Kong: "Japan's vital war strength is waning. ... I have been amazed to find how little Japanese leaders in Tokyo know of the Chinese spirit and determination. In the mountain regions the Japanese are on the defensive." Of bustling Chungking, China's new capital, he declared: "It affords an amazing contrast to a dull Tokyo and the latter's burdened, bureaucratic methods...
From England there are posters calling for volunteer auxiliary firemen, women drivers of ambulances and fire apparatus, and also women to aid in city evacuation. Mimeographed press releases from the Ministry of Information describe the progress of the boycott and price control in India...
...makes it abject and hungry in peace and proves it base and abominable in war. ... If the light of freedom which still burns so brightly in the frozen North should be finally quenched, it might well herald a return to the Bark Ages when every vestige of human progress during 2,000 years would be engulfed...
...long-range planning. . . . We cannot leave the future to take care of itself." Naturally Harvard must be as foresighted as possible, and not mistake the stagnant Forties for the roaring Twenties. But if "long-range planning" as envisaged by Mr. Conant involves any retardation of Harvard's present educational progress, it defeats its own purpose. For the quantity of endowments a university receives depends not only on economic conditions, but also on its educational prestige. Thus any move which compromises Harvard's academic leadership will in the long run tend to make Harvard less attractive to the givers of endowments...
...Broun, his mind is on the masses, his eyes slant to the Left. One measure of his personal leaning toward Marxism is his book The Pressure Boys, about lobbyists (with many a side crack at publishers and advertisers). In his last sentence, summarizing his beliefs, Crawford writes: "No great progress can be made until the hard-pressed middle classes learn that their destiny is bound up with the welfare of fellow workers at the bottom, not the owners at the top. . . ." In spite of his radical opinions, Guildsman Crawford is an organizational conservative, agrees with many a Red-abhorring publisher...