Word: canham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispute your statement of March 23 that Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor and newly elected president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is ". . . the first newspaperman in the Chamber's long line of 32 presidents...
Participants in the contest delivered a five to seven minute selection from a literary work. Pell's selection came from Erwin D. Canham's "The Authentic Revolution," and Lowe chose the speech of the Devil from Man and Superman, by George Bernard Shaw...
...Cussing. Canham is a gentle, scholarly newsman who started in the trade at the age of eight by taking news items over the telephone for his father, a country publisher in Lisbon, Me. He joined the 17-year-old Monitor after graduation from Bates College in 1925, became the Monitor's managing editor at 37, its editor in 1945. A Christian Scientist who neither smokes, drinks nor cusses, Canham is one of journalism's busiest men. Besides editing the Monitor, he writes a column on international affairs, moderates a weekly TV program in Boston called Starring the Editors...
...Capitalism. Canham believes that modern U.S. capitalism is far different from the capitalism of half a century ago, and that it is still "in the state of evolution, cleaning up the many abuses of the past." He describes his economic philosophy as "very much in the middle," against too much power for both labor and management. He is in favor of "the freest possible market. There is a great danger of cartelism in the American economy and a great deal of concern over the problem of bigness." On the other hand, he does not believe that the closed or union...
Fighting inflation is on a par with assuring further economic growth as a national problem, says Canham. One big reason that both the problems of growth and unemployment must be solved: "The U.S. is involved in the greatest competitive struggle in history." Yet Canham favors liberalization of nonstrategic trade with Russia. Says he: "It is definitely in our national interest that the standard of living of the Russian people be improved. But that doesn't mean, for instance, that we should enable them to get into the world petroleum market. That wouldn't necessarily mean a better life...