Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the President: >Ending his fortnight-long fumble with the proposed transfer of U. S. ships to Panama registry, gave a broad hint that he was now opposed to the plan...
...people would think of Walter Lippmann as a great detective. Courteous, well-read, softspoken, with a vocabulary greater than Sherlock Holmes's (and far more normal habits), he could talk international finance with Morgan partners, politics with Presidents, and seem much more like a reassuring expounder of broad issues than a practical political dopester. But last week genteel Columnist Waiter Lippmann solved a mystery that had baffled some of the keenest political detectives in the U. S. It was the Mystery of the Third Term, or Will President Roosevelt Run Again...
With the hunt in full swing, little chance for opposition exists to Dies' request for an additional $500,000. But before his Committee runs wild Congress would do well to apply its checks. "Un-Americanism" is too broad a word for safety. If Congress confined his investigations specifically to groups engaged in overthrowing the government, more facts and less sensation would result. Stripped of his power to prowl at will, Dies would soon find that the sum-total of his scares add up to little. Un-Americanism becomes a ghost story when told in installments before bedtime. But collected...
...spring months of last year saw two sweeping statements on Harvard education--a report of a special Faculty committee recommending a new "area" plan of concentration, and a Student Council report advocating the introduction of five broad survey courses, to be compulsory. The first is slowly reaching the stage of reality, while the second, to the best of anyone's knowledge, is just gathering dust in the Publications Office...
...there is no reason why the Student Council report should lie dormant. It is, in fact, based on the same principle as the "area" plan--the fight against too complete segregation of separate branches of learning. The Council's five broad survey courses bear a close relation to the new fields of concentration envisaged by the Faculty committee. The professors now working on the "area" project would find that the Student Council is in agreement with them as to the direction Harvard education must take. If anyone is going to act on the Council's report, they are the ones...