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Freedom of speech will not be the point under argument, as was the case in the proceedings of Mrs. Jean Kay against City College of New York, when the latter based an unsuccessful defense of its Russell appointment on the assertion that Russell should be permitted to expound his moral views from a lecture platform...
Some 250 House of Commons members of all parties recently gathered to hear Professor Keynes expound "Deferred Spending." Originally the Keynes Plan was for the State to take a portion of all incomes above ?150 ($600) yearly-this would exempt some 12,000.000 British wage earners from the Plan-and give in exchange 2½% Postal Savings Certificates redeemable after...
...Russell has been invited to teach courses in mathematics and logic, and not to expound his own personal ethics. With Professor Whitehead, one of the greatest logicians of our day, he has pushed far forward into the tortuous ways of logical analysis. A colorful, ruggedly independent thinker, prevented by his government from accepting a post proferred by Harvard, he was thrown into an English jail in 1918 as a conscientious objector. There he wrote his Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, cutting new paths into unexplored realms. Characteristically, he studied Russian Communism on the spot. For some time he lectured at Peking...
...sudden the notes began to go flat. Finland was putting up such a fight that Russia evidently could not take on a new adventure. Moreover, in Rome the Fascist Grand Council, highest governing body of Italy, met in a lengthy night session, heard Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano expound for two hours and a half and finally conclude that "everything that may happen in the Danube Basin and the Balkans cannot help but directly interest Italy." The Soviet Government took the almost unprecedented step of squelching Communist International for its article. It was at about this point that Germany...
...many a business executive, expert that he may be in selling goods or building a mousetrap, has no gift for wooing the public: he needs an associate who can expound his "social responsibilities" to workers, to the buying public, to local communities, to the Federal Government. The easiest way to get this done is to hire one of the small group of well-fed, top-flight "public relations counsels...