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...year-old Karl Mundt is a man who believes in the power of speech and the written word. He had been a schoolteacher for twelve years, gave it up for the wider audience of politics. As an articulate member of Kiwanis, Masons, Shriners, Elks, Odd Fellows, and the House of Representatives (since 1939), he has never been frightened by a rostrum. He is president of the National Forensic League. He has written for Outdoor America, the Country Gentleman, Conservation, Education and Successful Farming. He writes a monthly column about Washington for the Republican magazine. The war convinced him that...
...ought to be hanged or at least jailed. But in Tokyo, he found himself recommending to his unsuspecting "victim" the right U.S. woman tutor (Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining) for the Crown Prince. And he also helped draft democratic reforms for Japanese education: popularly elected school boards, a simplified alphabet,wider public schooling...
...study in cooperation with the secondary schools might well be formed. A good deal more can certainly be said to the world outside the higher academic cloisters about the accomplishments of Harvard's General Education. Publicity-wary as the University may rightfully be, the new program must be given wider currency if the part of the faculty report on secondary education is to collect fingerprints instead of dust...
Revolution's Son. The man who conies to the U.S. to speak for Mexico talks (in Spanish) an economic doctrine that successful Americans will find familiar: encouragement of private industry, more production, wider sales to make still more production. Yet equally, Miguel Aléman Valdes at 43 belongs to the Revolution. He is its product, perhaps its end product...
...time he was an adolescent, the Revolution had shaken the tight social system which Mexico had inherited from Spain, and opened wider horizons to young men. It wrenched power from the cautious hacendados (landed gentry), who seldom took a chance with a peso- except over a gaming table. It handed power and wealth to half-educated generals and to adventurous businessmen not greatly different from the men who built the U.S. Whatever their sins, the new bosses were willing to bet the wad on Mexico- at least, the part they did not keep for themselves. They took such sleepy colonial...