Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Returning to the campus where the idea for such a conference was originally conceived in 1936, the meeting will take as its central theme of discussion, "Immediate Problems and Policies of the United States Government." Because the purpose of the conference is to enable undergraduates to discuss problems of the day with distinguished faculty men from the three universities and men prominent in public life, it will consist of five round-table discussions with student, teacher, and guest participating...
...idea of a conference of the world's strong men was credited to President Roosevelt three years ago. At that time the British did not take...
...ever say anything positive about Hitler? Is it not great enough a deed to have united, without bloodshed, all the Germans (since Charlemagne thousands of great Germans have fought for the idea in vain), to have saved us from another inflation, to have given work to all our workless...
...change of tone was immediately apparent. A. F. of L.'s Woll, Bates & Rickert consented to debate John Lewis' idea along with "any other suggestions." Because Miners Lewis and Murray had to attend U. M. W.'s annual contract negotiations, the peace talks were shifted to Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel. While reporters pitched pennies at a line in the corridor (chief winner: A. F. of L.'s Press Agent Phil Pearl) the negotiators in Room 105 wrangled for five hours., consumed $11.90 worth of sandwiches, coffee and milk. The results were inconclusive but the conferences...
...Garbedian's book is illustrated with several photographs never before published. One of these shows Einstein lecturing at the age of 26, when he had just launched the theory that revolutionized physics by destroying the age-old idea of absolute time (see cut). This week, on the day of the book's publication, Albert Einstein was 60. On his birthday he hinted that he had at last developed a "unified field theory" which would link his picture of the universe with the accepted scientific view of the behavior of the atom...