Word: lippmanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter Lippmann '10, editorial columnist of the New York Herald-Tribune and member of the Board of Overseers, and Bruce Bliven, managing editor or The New Republic, will speak before Harvard organizations during the next four days...
Even so constructive a critic of the Administration as Walter Lippmann decided, after re-reading the Recovery Act: "Congress meant to allow industries to combine for two years, to enjoy the benefit of exemption from the anti-trust laws provided they lived up to certain conditions. The initiative was to come from industry. Certain privileges were to be granted to industries if they made certain concessions. It seems to me clear that for most industries Congress meant that codes should, under certain conditions, be permitted and not that codes should universally be imposed. . . " The excessive centralization and the dictatorial spirit...
...sent their presidents West, to dine in St. Louis with friends and alumnae. They went in a distinguished phalanx-Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, Marion Edwards Park, Mary Emma Woolley, Ada Louise Comstock, William Allen Neilson, Henry Noble MacCracken and Ellen Fitz Pendleton, and as dinner speaker they produced Pundit Walter Lippmann. Mr. Lippmann, whose wife Faye Albertson went to Boston University, exclaimed he was "almost ashamed" to be obliged to defend higher education for women, which he called a "rather decent overcoming of a primitive feeling, and we know that new liberties are fragile and must be vigilantly defended...
...York Herald Tribune, Pundit Walter Lippmann wrote an editorial-of-the-week called "The Pace of Things." "In our domestic affairs,'' said he, "we have indulged heavily in calendar-worship. In Washington, for example, the administration of the NRA has been beset by a kind of breathless anxiety that certain definite results had to be achieved on a particular day. There had to be x million men at work by Labor Day. There had to be x million more by the New Year. . . . Even the Dictatorships, where everything is done so lickety-split. have allowed themselves...
...extemporaneous speech at Chestertown, Md., where Washington College gave him an LL. D., President Roosevelt seemed to have the Lippmann criticism in mind. He said: "Some countries which have Dictatorships have laid down five-year plans and ten-year plans. However, I believe that in this country, which has not got a Dictator, we can move further in a shorter period without naming a definite length of time. . . . We have attained much within the past few months, but we cannot accomplish all in a few months...