Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney General Frank Murphy last week announced that he had appointed a man (he wouldn't say whom) to study the idea of setting up a special division in the Department of Justice to do a new job-protect civil liberties. He said that protecting the rights of a "protesting and insecure" people was a matter close to his heart. > Frank D. Fitzgerald, Mr. Murphy's successor as Governor of Michigan, last week asked his legislature to outlaw sit-down strikes, of which his predecessor had plenty...
...study of broadness the idea of survey courses enters. Despite the dangers of superficiality proved to some degree by Chicago University, survey courses are practical for a plan of study which, because of the failure of the secondary schools, must teach the fundamental ideas of the world. It is even possible to design survey courses, so that they will do more than skim the surface...
Immediately above Chesapeake Corp. in the fantastic Van Sweringen pyramid was Alleghany Corp. Robert Young bought control of Alleghany (TIME, May 3, 1937) and proposed merging it with Chesapeake. His idea was that the owners of 667,539 shares of Alleghany preferred-including several potent friends of Guaranty Trust-should surrender their stock and their right to accumulated dividends of $33 per share in exchange for a new type of preferred and common-stock warrants. This plan was thwarted by Guaranty, which held Alleghany's 71% interest in Chesapeake as collateral for Alleghany bonds in technical default...
...some of Author Martin's implications were to be taken seriously, democratic readers might well start after him in a posse. But these implications, like the story itself, are content to be arresting. The book, unlike the idea behind it, has lots of bang but little dynamite. Though General Manpower can justly be accused of ingeniously sketching out an ingenious notion, it will not be convicted of undue seriousness, in any court...
Among the English novelists who bite as well as bark, Storm Jameson is a lively terrier. She pounces on an idea, gets a firm grip on it, shakes, worries, chews it to bits. Sometimes she gets her teeth into a marrowy morsel, sometimes merely chews an old hat. For several years she has been chewing a huge bone-The Mirror in Darkness, a pageant of post-War England, three volumes so far, three more to come. Every once in a while she buries the bone (but not her bitterness-the War killed her brother, most of her men friends...