Word: broader
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spare for such studies. On the other hand, the Littauer school cannot fill the shoes ordered for it if it provides nothing more than narrow vocational training. Its business, in the words of the Commission's report, is to give the student "a grasp of public administration in its broader phases as a branch of the science of government...
Meanwhile, TIME, Inc. was launching LIFE from Manhattan as a picture weekly. Conferring with LIFE'S editors, Mike Cowles saw no reason why Look should not find a lower, broader field as a picture monthly. He put up $300.000 of his own and his brother's money to find out if he was right. Friends like Fred Bohen came in for $200,000 more. In spite of his big circulation plans (400.000 first issue). Publisher Cowles announced that, for the present, Look would solicit no advertising. To tradepapers he announced that Look would have "reader interest for yourself...
...freshmen interested in Phillips Brooks House, an interest both solidifying the members of the group and stimulating their friends and classmates to follow their initiative in such volunteer service The committee, therefore, is a more articulate expression of the freshman class than the Union Committee. Its functions are broader; its importance greater because of its direct contact with all freshmen through canvassing and because of the value of the work it promotes...
...broader question of SEC's grant of power, Attorney Jackson went into detail on the evils of holding company pyramids discovered in the Federal Trade Commission's survey of 2,300 utilities, on which the Utility Act was based. Conceding that Electric Bond & Share was not necessarily guilty of these evils, he observed that the Bond & Share texture was similar to those in which corporate bubbles had been known to form. He trotted out charts to show that 48% of the gas and 28% of the electricity distributed by Bond & Share's multitudinous subsidiaries were conducted across...
...into full prespective. Last year a number of the "big men" participating expressed their delight at discovering this new method of self-education. That indeed, epitomizes the spirit of a conference in which leaders in various fields collaborate with but a single goal in mind--the building of a broader understanding...