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...Liberal Tradition--A Free People and a Free Economy" will be the subject of the four annual Godkin Lectures which Lewis W. Douglas, former Director of the Budget, will deliver next week...
...will recall that Walter Lippmann in his admirably written and poorly delivered Godkin lectures of last year had much to say about the necessity for compensatory action on the part of an administration: when the people spend recklessly, the state must save; when the people become too thrifty, then the state must spend. As Mr. Lippmann stated in last Saturday's article, "the very essence of a tree central bank is that it must act contrary to the prevailing mood in politics and finance." What Mr. Lippmann failed to do in his lectures, it seems to me, was to offer...
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 later...
This important series of lectures was given to the University in 1903 by the friends of Edwin L. Godkin, noted editorial writer on the old New York Evening Post and founder of the Nation, "as a memorial of his long and distinguished service to the country of his adoption...
Walter Lippmann '10, concluded his series of Godkin lectures with an eulogy of the middle class and an attack on the alliance of plutocrats and proletarian groups which menace the operation of democracy, at the New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon...