Word: douglases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lewis W. Douglas, who resigned last summer as Director of the Budget when he and President Roosevelt were unable to agree on a program of government expenditure, has accepted the invitation to deliver the annual Godkin Lectures this spring. His topic and the dates of the series will be announced...
Since Mr. Douglas must deal with the "Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen" under the terms of the endowment, it is probable that he will discuss the underlying philosophy of the present Administration. Whether he will take up its financial aspects is an open question.
Mr. Douglas, who was awarded an honorary LL.D. here in 1933 "for saving the national credit by wise and just economy" has won his reputation through government service. When he served in Congress from 1927 to 1933, he criticized the Hoover Administration for failing to take sufficiently decisive action to...
Canadian Authors Douglas & LeCocq dedicate their "confidential guide" to England to "hit-and-run writers from England ... to Mary Queen of Scots, Joan of Arc, and other ladies who have misjudged the English-and to the Atlantic Ocean which keeps us apart." Author LeCocq has been to England; Author Douglas...
In their paragraph on the speech of England's Best People. Authors Douglas & LeCocq disclose some of the secrets of its complex simplicity, consisting of " 'um's, 'aw's, and 'er's, the meanings of which vary according to the context. 'Um...