Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of the magazine is to compile the latest information on mass opinion, the "controlling but obscure force" from the fields of scholarship, government, business, advertising, public relations, press, radio, and motion pictures...
...whole idea originated with Gorin, The organization promised that it would actively lobby for a $1,000 bonus to all pre-veterans. Assuming that a war is inevitable the promoters thought that the soldiers-to-be should enjoy while they were physically fit. Why wait until they were crippled, matured, or even dead. Apparently, however, they have decided to wait...
...chairman of its Board of Trustees three years ago. The first architectural school in the U. S., founded in 1894 by a group of U. S. architects trained at Paris' famed Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Institute had begun to show signs of declining into old age. The idea of the founders had been to set up a central agency of architects which would license any group of five or more students as an atelier, project problems for them, judge and grade the resulting drawings...
...Coast. Last week, undergraduate newspapers at Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale simultaneously printed identical editorials advocating that the "Ivy League" be made a reality with conference rules, schedule restrictions patterned on those of the Midwest's Big Ten. "Ivy League" athletic officials pooh-poohed the idea...
...Louder!" cried the floor brokers, most of whom had not the faintest idea why Al Smith had decided to pay them a visit. President Gay then made a welcoming speech but that, too, was lost in the Exchange's vasty spaces. "Louder! Louder!" shouted the brokers as Mr. Smith began to ask for hospital contributions. Desperate, officials ordered all Exchange machinery stopped for the duration of the Smith remarks. "This is the last place to explain that in the past six years we have been passing through a world-wide depression," rumbled the once Happy Warrior...