Word: lippmanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present time there are four well defined groups of religious thought to which the title 'Liberal' or 'Modern' is attached. The first I represent by the viewpoint of Harry Elmer Barnes, the second by that of John Haynes Holmes, the third by that of Walter Lippmann, Julian Huxley, and Bertrand Russell, and the fourth by the name of Harry Emerson Fosdick." T. L. Harris, adviser in Religion in the University, said last night at a Liberal Club gathering in Lowell House...
...Every man who wants to be religious should read Lippmann's "Preface to Morals," Huxley's "Religion Without Revelation," and Russell's "What I Believe," Dr. Harris said. These writers have no naive belief in Science as the now Mesiah, but own a humanistic point of view in all matters. "I think that these authors have inclined to an over-analytic train of thought...
...newsman has watched Governor Roosevelt's career more intently or knows his political character better than Walter Lippmann, former editor of the old Independent New York World, now a free-handed political colyumist for the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune. Commenting last week on the fact that the Governor's message won the praise of such divergent elements as the staid New York Times and Montana's wild and unstable Senator Wheeler, Mr. Lippmann wrote...
This changing outlook takes a tangible form in a willingness to consider suggestions which in 1929 would have been dismissed as visionary. Recently Walter Lippmann, writing in the Herald-Tribune, suggested that the government might meet the financial obligations to Europe, which the Confederate States repudiated in 1865, by reducing the present debts. Whether this plan is actually advisable is beside the point; what is significant is that the suggestion was seriously advanced and seriously considered...
...Commission, by denying the horizontal increase (which might diverge more freight from the roads than the benefits would compensate for), felt that the lines "had been saved from the consequences of a mistake." Professor Ripley foresaw "a distinct betterment of outlook for the future." Others thought otherwise. Liberal Walter Lippmann colyumed in the New York Herald Tribune: "The Commission has evidently tried to select particular commodities, which either have not fallen in price as much as others or are so bulky and necessary that they have to be carried on railroads anyway. From the shippers of these selected goods...