Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Josiah: The problem of labor-displacing inventions has become acute and will become more acute still at the same rate of scientific innovation...
...Josiah: I feel inclined to say to all of you scientific pundits: There would not be a problem at all if you were not so chaotic in your discoveries?if you would only introduce them under conditions that we could control...
Though they did not talk that way face to face, Sir James Hopwood Jeans and Sir Josiah Charles Stamp were in effect last week debating a familiar old question at the Aberdeen meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The question: Shall Science take, a holiday? Sir James as the astronomer-physicist president of the Association, held out doggedly against such an idea one day on one platform. The next day on another platform Sir Josiah, as the Association's economist-tycoon treasurer, seemed to think it would do no great harm...
...this it was pretty hard for the opposition to find anything out of which to make political capital. Laborite Colonel Josiah Wedgwood picked on the Government's policy of nonpayment of War debts...
...Because I am an Englishman," roared Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood...