Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finer has been Reader in Public Administration at the University of London for the past 23 years, and has recently been special consultant on post-war reconstruction for the International Labor Office of the League of Nations at Montreal...
Ending the Post-War Council's summer series of forums on future international problems, Herman Finer, of the University of London, spoke Wednesday night in the Lowell Junior Common Room on "Great Britain in the Big Four and the Post-War World." The series was co-sponsored by the Liberal Union and the Radcliffe League for Democracy...
Discussing Britain's position in world affairs in the years to come, Finer touched upon such controversial points as imperial policy and relations with Russia...
...years after the war," continued Finer, "we must send men into the backward regions of the earth, as in Chile recently, to transfer skills to the people so that they may use them independently. Skill is the one thing you can give away without losing it yourself. And the net result will make loans to these countries good long-view investments, since new prosperity to the countries being transformed will mean added prosperity to the already industrialized nations experiencing an employment spurt in supplying the implements for the transformation...
...Finer feels that he has returned to academic life for good, and plans to fulfill a lifetime ambition in the near future by writing a 1944 version of James Bryce's "The American Commonwealth...