Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year's lecturer was Douglas B. Copeland, Australian economist. Other appointments to the lectureship went to Rt. Hon. James Bryce, President Charles W. Eliot, Walter Lippman, Lewis W. Douglas, Heinrich Bruening, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Gunnar Myrdal, Robert Moses, and Charles E. Merriam. The lectures are usually published in book form at a later date...
Charles W. Latimer, a boyhood friend of the President's in Independence, Mo., came all the way from his present home in Tampa, Fla., just to shake hands. And there was Bryce B. Smith, longtime (1930-40) mayor of Kansas City under the Boss Pendergast regime...
...government which "expresses its will within social order, mutual respect, public morale." Further, the dictator did not think that political parties were necessary ingredients. Snorted La Nación, Buenos Aires' ponderous liberal daily: "Democracy without parties is inconceivable." Into the flashing Morinigo teeth it tossed Lord Bryce's well-known definition.* The blast was obviously intended as an indirect slap at Argentina's own intolerant military regime...
Finer feels that he has returned to academic life for good, and plans to fulfill a lifetime ambition in the near future by writing a 1944 version of James Bryce's "The American Commonwealth...
Economist-Senator Myrdal was chosen by Carnegie's trustees to make this major American study because he was 1) an able scholar, 2) not an American, and thus could look at Negroes with an "entirely fresh mind." Perhaps not since de Tocqueville and Bryce has the U.S. had such an analytical probing by a sharp-eyed foreigner. Sifting a mountain of documentation through a trained academic mind, Dr. Myrdal drew conclusions that will make U.S. citizens either nod or squirm...