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...legal remedies and to subvert the principles of law and order which lie at the foundations of society. As [Fansteel's] unfair labor practices afforded no excuse for the seizure and holding of its buildings, [Fansteel] had its normal rights of redress. Those rights, in their most obvious scope, included the right to discharge the wrongdoers...
...would be hard to find three more dissimilar business associates than Bror Dahlberg, Walter S. Mack Jr. and Wallace Groves. Mr. Dahlberg is a smoothfaced, vigorous Swede of 58 who collects Napoleonana, has an ornate office almost as big as Hitler's, runs his business with cosmic scope. Mr. Mack is a relaxed Harvardman with intense blue eyes and nonchalance about money; he likes to consider himself a sort of clinicist for big business. Mr. Groves is a bald, shy Southerner whose financial talents have earned him several million dollars, a reputation as "silent man of Wall Street...
...such standards, The Patriot ranks with her best work. Aiming at twice the scope of The Good Earth, Pearl Buck this time pays tribute to the common people of Japan as well as China...
...attempt to object publicly to the prostitution of knowledge to the worldly aims of an individual state the effort has proved wildly successful--the whole world is indisputably convinced of Dr. Bridgman's aversion to government regulation of scientific research. But in its broader significance, in the possible scope of its influence, the recently pronounced ban has several conspicuous aspects which stamp it as an impractical, misguided, dangerous effort...
...harmless the law may read, the Teachers' Oath does actually qualify liberty of thought and speech. The law may not now infringe upon the freedom of the university, but that it may do so in the near future is quite conceivable. Either the present Act may expand in scope or it may simply be the wedge for more stringent laws. Obviously, in contrast to such a threat, any considerations of "town-gown" relations are insignificant. Harvard must again employ all its influence and prestige to help defeat a law which might some day destroy its own intellectual freedom...