Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are several basic questions involved in the teaching of engineering. If the Engineering School is to be a trade school the most modern equipment is necessary. If it is to concern itself with instruction in the fundamentals of engineering the necessity is not so acute. But a conflict of principle appears in the present set-up of the School. The trips to the Watertown Arsenal are justified on the grounds that in the government's plant the students become acquainted with the very latest developments in the metallurgy and gain essential practical knowledge first-hand. Students on the other...
...basic article was FORTUNE'S, not TIME'S; and it by no means settled the question of Preparedness v. Unpreparedness. Nevertheless, for the praise, all thanks.-ED. Sirs: Permit me to express to you the sincere appreciation that I feel from the depth of my heart, for the wonderful article in March issue of FORTUNE on the subject of "Arms and the Men." I feel that your courage in this matter is doing more to set forward the cause of world peace than any single bit of literary endeavor that has been released...
...state with all emphasis at my command that the Japanese nation makes it a basic principle to collaborate in peace and harmony with all nations, and has no intention whatever to provoke and make trouble with any other power...
...This basic struggle between agriculture and industry has been disguised by the existence of two major parties of national scope which rested upon compromise. The Democratic Party is rapidly becoming the expression of the industrial interests and the Republican Party appears temporarily removed from the field on national politics. The void left by the Republican incapacity will be filled by this new third party led by the Farmer Labor contingent, a party which will crystallize the discontented farmers into a group of prime political importance...
...this as anything more than a disingenuous stall for the time necessary to integrate the company unions with the administration. These unions have been, through the course of depression an d discontent, pretty manageable; Mr. Green's Federation, with its weighting in the Labor Board, cannot but bring the basic conflict of employer and worker into the open, and make compromise impossible...