Word: wide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years,"* is in an exceedingly tough spot. First, he must be nominated, and the machine leaders he defied two years ago will have none of him. Last week the Democratic State Committee met in Harrisburg to pick a candidate to succeed Joe. From Washington came hurried word that another wide-open Democratic split would be disastrous. So, after whooping through a Roosevelt-for-Third-Term resolution, the committee picked nobody, declared for an open primary for the first time in ten years. Under the circumstances, it was the best break Joe Guffey could have looked for, because: 1) Joe controls...
...debaters were the familiar trio of Edouard Daladier, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler. The subject was the well-worn proposition: "Resolved, that the Allied cause is just." As usual, the speakers roamed far & wide from their subjects. The French Premier, for instance, got very bitter about the "madmen who rule at Berlin." The German Chancellor was also given to personal insults and mockery. The British Prime Minister meandered among the non-belligerents. All in all, last week's speeches were mainly pep talks for the home folks. Certainly this round in the European war of words did not change many...
Last year Harvard Square's tutoring schools reached a peak of effectiveness in sabotaging the University's educational system. The College, through shortcomings of its own, had opened the door a crack for them, but with high-pressure business tactics they forced it wide, bursting in all their viciousness upon the Harvard scene. A year of attack could not be expected to climinate them, entrenched as they were. But today they are not the same as they used to be: two of them have closed, and most of the rest are not making as much this year as last...
...never again will Harvard accept them as complacently as it used to. The Faculty has lately shown, through its consideration of the Student Council Report and the recommendation for wide area fields of concentration, that it is questioning the fundamentals of Harvard's educational process. Whatever kind of new structure is built, it must be made proof against the parasites of Harvard Square, and so must provide within the University for all legitimate tutoring needs. Attempts to do this have so far hardly had time to prove their effectiveness. But they show the way that the University must...
...other hand, secession is equally unwise; it would be at once the first step in the disintegration of the national organization, and a death-blow to the local chapter. As President Gottlieb declared, "there is no need to emphasize the necessity for a nation-wide youth organization working to keep America out of war. Under very favorable circumstances it took five years to build the A.S.U. If we are to help break it up now, we would destroy it at the time we need it most...