Word: lippmanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Astronomer Frederidck Henry Seares of Mt. Wilson Observatory . . . . . . . LL.D. University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Ind.) Executive Director Frank C. Walker of the National Emergency Council. LL. D. University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyo.) Commissioner of Reclamation Elwood Mead . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D. Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) Walter Lippmann . . . . . . . . . .LL.D...
...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...
...Lippmann's solution for the difficulties which Democratic, governments encounter from special interests and "pressure groups" was to lift the proletarian classes to a point where they would be independent and where their "right to work" would be secure. He referred to Aristotle's belief in the reliability of those of the population in the "middle condition" and quoted from "The New Party Politics" by Professor Arthur N. Holcombe '06. He demanded that the state guarantee the right to work. This problem is not insoluble, he said, as the possibilities of useful public works are "really inexhaustible...
...theory of eliminating both extremes of society, the insecure proletariat and the plutocrat seeking to gain more power through the use of his idle wealth is not socialism or communism any other ism, Lippmann declared. On the contrary it is a project to "make the people independent of the state...
Bointing out that the Directed Economy could only be realized by the use of force, Mr. Lippmann said. "It is no accident that wherever and whenever planned collectivism has been instituted . . . it has required censorship, espionage, and terrorism to make it work...