Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LOAN DEMAND from business is skyrocketing because of heavy federal tax payments due this month. Federal Reserve member banks report that commercial, industrial and agricultural loans shot up by $1.4 billion in the first three weeks of March, pushing total loans up 20% over a year...
...large degree, I believe, the broad areas of agreement on major issues, which we have just examined. The more fully we recognize and accept that consensus, the more difficult it is to tackle the remaining differences with the zeal and the energy which our democratic tradition seems to demand...
What this new consensus will support and eventually demand is informed, conscientious, positive action over a long period of time and on many fronts in the direction pointed by the conception of the world as an organic community, divided though it may now be by Soviet ambitions. This effort will call for the full use of our material, physical, and moral resources on a scale which the American people have not yet contemplated in times of peace. Working politicians and students of government both agree that the initiative for such a national commitment must come primarily from the executive...
...program is largely warmed-over excerpts from his former books, but it is still provocative and constructive. Facing the fact that there is not a great public demand for high quality education, or for intensive theoretical research, he argues that these educational functions should be concentrated in a few of our best universities, so as to get the most out of combining teaching and research. For the rest of our ever-growing crop of erstwhile college students, he proposes two year local colleges...
...which there are already assistants, a double-lecture system might be most effective. It would require a great deal of unwonted pre-class preparation for students to learn facts now contained in expository lectures, and which would be excluded from shorter debate-type lectures. In spite of this inordinate demand, however, dialectic lectures in some cases might prove an interesting and fruitful experiment. They might also give lectures some advantage over reading besides dramatic coloration, thus providing a new justification for the existence of the lecture system...