Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problems of turning out a newspaper in Bermuda are many and complex, the foremost being the difficulty of obtaining news. Next to this comes the problem of finding out the color of the Names in the News. When Bermudians read about T. V. Soong or F. D. Roosevelt or H. Selassie, they like to close their eyes and visualize, and they can't do this unless told the exact hue of these celebrities...
...were convicted in Madison, Wis. last January of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Federal Judge Patrick Thomas Stone withheld sentence pending motions for a new trial. Last week, he listened to an argument that the jury's verdict should be set aside because the jurors deliberated the complex case only seven hours, which was not enough time to give each defendant the individual consideration specifically ordered by Judge Stone. Meanwhile, in Washington, a Senate committee, studying a bill to require separation of marketing petroleum from producing, refining and transporting it. heard monopoly-hating Senator Borah claim that "four...
...week the commission unanimously voted to defer selection of a permanent chairman until the President named Mr. Hosford's successor, elected Minority Commissioner Percy Tetlow, an Ohio coal miner, as temporary chairman. Meanwhile Franklin Roosevelt, already heckled by the TVA fuss, was moved to disillusioned comment. Asked a complex question about whether the U. S. would have participated in the World War if it had been fully armed, Franklin Roosevelt wearily replied that it was a bit like saying: If Abraham Lincoln were alive and on the Bituminous Coal Commission, what would he have done...
...perform these complex functions, Republic's new mill relies chiefly on 1,420 electric motors, all of them so integrated and automatic that a few master switches control everything. To the charge that mills of this type reduce employment, Tom Girdler last week made the standard answer: "The number of men required to run the mill itself represents only a small fraction of the employment made possible by the mill...
Last week The Intelligent Individual and Society and Retreat from Reason continued the counterattack. The more tentative of the two authors, tousled, 55-year-old Percy Williams Bridgman, famed Harvard physicist, admits that people are harder to understand than physics. In time, however, he thinks that man's complex make-up can be plotted and simplified, provided men take over the physicist's skeptical (but not cynical) attitude toward things-in-general. His major discovery, after 300 pages of considering man's odd behavior, is that people are mentally lazy...