Word: economist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Economist Harold Laski developed young Marxists at the London School of Economics, and the Imperial College of Science and Technology (Britain's closest rival to CalTech and M.I.T.) could boast such luminaries as Professor Thomas Huxley and Student H. G. Wells. Guy's Hospital and Medical School has also done well-with Alumnus John Keats and Teacher Richard Bright (discoverer of Bright's Disease...
...Catholic, Bernard Cardinal Griffin, spoke up in a quieter voice. "To say that we find it difficult to understand why this invitation was extended is an understatement." But Anthony Eden, said the cardinal, "need not fear that his visitor will suffer discourtesy, let alone violence, at our hands." The Economist insisted that "the majority of British people are curious to see the man who stood up against Stalin, who fought a good fight against the Germans ... It would be a pity if Roman Catholics in this country found themselves shoulder to shoulder with Communists in demonstrations against his visit...
...Economist proclaimed its majority perhaps a little too quickly. Last week the Archbishop of Canterbury, religious head of the Anglican Church, described Tito's government as "vowedly anti-religious," declared that all Christians are "bitterly aware of the sufferings" in Yugoslavia, and trusted that Eden would tell his guest how "very strong and very widespread" this feeling...
...gave $182,000 to the Institute of Pacific Relations, which in 1952 was denounced by the McCarran Committee as an "instrument of Communist policy." It also paid out about $15,000 in small sums to such leftists as Professor Frederick Schuman of Williams College, and Economist Mordecai Ezekiel, listed by the House Un-American Activities Committee as a member of the American League for Peace and Democracy and of the Southern Conference on Human Welfare. All in all, said the endowment's President Joseph E. Johnson, the endowment had spent something more than $246,000 on people and organizations...
...through a "misunderstanding" to Owen Lattimore to attend an I.P.R. conference in New Delhi, $15,684 from 1935 to 1939 to the French Communist Frederic Joliot-Curie for his work in physics, $8,250 to Composer Hanns Eisler, brother of Communist Gerhart Eisler, and $6,050 to Economist Oscar Lange, who later became a diplomatic representative of Communist Poland. In 1948, as a "calculated risk," it also gave the China Aid Council $7,500 to translate Western classics into Chinese -six years after the House Un-American