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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard again reached into a prostrate Austria yesterday to appoint one of her leading economists, Gottfried Haberler, to the Faculty as associate professor of Economics for the next five years. Austria's other representative in this field is Joseph A. Schumpeter, formerly powerful in Vienna's government circles...
When public clamor on some vital issue becomes too loud for White House comfort, a favorite Presidential trick is to appoint a batch of Big Names to a special commission to investigate the matter. By the time the commission gets around to making a report, the public has usually cooled off, forgotten what the outcry was all about. Most notorious use of this prolonged investigational device was the Wickersham Report on Law Observance and Enforcement, which President Hoover chose to ignore (TIME, Feb. 2, 1931). Last winter President Roosevelt found himself in his first hot water following precipitate cancellation...
Last week President Roosevelt received another complaint about his Secretary of the Interior, this time from Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. The point at issue was Mr. Ickes' antipolitical administration of the Virgin Islands. Secretary Ickes had insisted that Paul Martin Pearson, sexagenarian Chautauqua organizer appointed by Herbert Hoover as Governor of the Virgin Islands, should not be removed to make room for a deserving Democrat. Senator Harrison had a job-seeking friend named T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson of Mississippi who in 1928 gave up a seat in the House to run for the Senate and lost. Lest...
...Windsor Castle to need sweeping. You cannot offer to sweep them. Finally you are asked, and up the chimney you go. Emerging sooty but elated you wash up, present yourself at the Lord Chamberlain's office and state the facts. If the Lord Chamberlain pleases he may appoint you, as he has appointed G. J. Kite, "By Royal Warrant Chimney Sweeper to His Majesty the King...
Newsworthy were three other proposals in President Conant's report: ¶Many a scholar retreats into his own specialty, loses sight of outside progress. President Conant would appoint a select corps of "professors without portfolio'' to bridge the artificial gaps which over-specialization leaves between fields of study. "We need a certain number of university professors with roving commissions whose teaching and creative work shall not be hampered by departmental considerations...