Word: dunlap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eastern seaboard publicly consigned to purgatory by the President's Purge. The others: Senators Smith of South Carolina and George of Georgia. To slap the latter further down, the White House last week caused RFC to oust, "for political activities," Senator George's stanch supporter. Edgar B. Dunlap, counsel to RFC's Atlanta office...
Psychology Professor Knight Dunlap, of the University of California at Los Angeles, last week made a proposal* shocking to many a U. S. educator: that humanity should be told that it is sometimes a duty, for the sake of human progress, to commit crime. Children, said he also, should learn that it is sometimes necessary to defy their parents. His thesis: if nobody ever broke a bad law, mankind would eventually get into a rut, sink back into savagery...
Some laws, said the professor, are bad from the beginning, others worse, with time and change. Unless someone dares to violate such laws and leads others to disregard them, they are not repealed, block progress. Sample bad laws: Prohibition, antigambling, anti-birth control. Professor Dunlap's list of history's lawless heroes: Jesus Christ, Margaret Sanger, John Brown, Robert E. Lee, George Washington (crime: treason against Britain), several other unnamed U. S. Presidents...
...Said Dr. Dunlap: "Women . . . seem less abject in their obedience to foolish laws than are men. ... It was once against rigid convention for women to expose their legs in public...
...Willard A. Smith 1G. Thayer scholarships to: Sidney W. Benson, Columbia University John C. Greene, University of South Dakota. William S. Johnson 1G. Thomas R. Steadman 1G. Gorham Thomas scholarship, Herbert W. Crispin. Townsend scholarships to: Laurence L. Barber Jr. 1G, Bernard S. Lynn, Stanford University, Donald T. MacRae, Dunlap Observatory. John Tyndall scholarship, Henry Hurwitz Jr. Cornell University...