Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...layout of the color reproductions of his various periods lends weight to a theory of mine: that artists lean to abstract painting when war is in the air. (Picasso's 1914-15 and 1935-36 periods would correspond to the beginning of the World War and to the Civil War in Spain...
...troubles between the Jews and Arabs are to a great degree due to a weak and inefficient. British civil administration. Because of these troubles, Zionism, the most progressive force in the Near East, is being subjected to a new Munich to which Chamberlain and the Arab feudal leaders, supported by Italy and Germany, are parties. This is not a necessary or feasible solution. Instead, let the British continue the Mandate, improve their administration, grant government aid to Arab education and health services and strengthen the hand of Arab moderates. Thus they may create a friendly atmosphere in which an expanding...
...reforms, inaugurated by Leonard D. White, retired Civil Service Commissioner and his successor, Samuel H. Ordway '21, are the third stop in a series designed to draw recruits from a wider field and to open government service to those trained in the Social Sciences and Public Administration. Government Department members have expressed approval of these reforms...
Although the omission of any civil service reform in the new Reorganization Bill indicates the tentacles of the spoils system are still strong, the recent tendency to recruit more university students for permanent political jobs is encouraging. New positions are now available to men with a regular four year college training in the Social Sciences or in Public Administration. And, even more important, examinations for entrance into the service are now more closely correlated to the educational system. Such steps as these make it evident that the government now recognizes the need for a greater reservoir of expert opinion...
...fact, the establishment of an expertly trained civil service may be a great aid in the preservation of democracy. For in an age in which governmental control is steadily increasing, the only force that may save America from a centralized dictatorship is the presence of an efficient public service. The decision of the government, therefore, in enlisting education in its behalf could not be more timely...