Word: magnas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...triumphal journey much less uproarious than Charles Lindbergh's ticker-tape blizzard (see p. 20). Grover Whalen, resplendent in a flowing stock, received them at his Fair, where they were tootled around in a trackless motor train. Their own Empire's exhibits, including a copy of the Magna Charta, were their chief stops, being formal reasons for their U. S. visit. Artist Frank E. Beresford was on hand with sketch pad to record the event. Columbia University got a crack at them on their way to Hyde Park: Dr. Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler received them at the foot...
...firing of Harvard teachers generally. Two months ago it delivered a 165-page report proposing many reforms. Last week, to the surprise of many, President Conant adopted the report in toto as Harvard's employment policy. The Walsh-Sweezy affair thus produced what may well prove a Magna Charta for U. S. college teachers...
Most ringing manifesto in President Conant's Magna Charta is one on academic freedom. Finding traces of anti-Semitism among the faculty, President Conant and his committee sternly directed that appointments be made "solely on grounds of professional qualifications." Because "a university breeds its own conservatism," they agreed that Harvard should go out of its way to recruit "thoughtful rebels" for its faculty...
Germany, Italy and Japan have found a way to stop this drain. But they did so by violating capitalism's unwritten Magna Charta: That money must have a right to go wherever it can make profits and avoid losses. In Britain, this right has now been suspended by Sir John Simon's dictum: "The export of capital . . . would be deleterious to the national interest...
King John, a Plantaganet issued the Magna Charta. Henry VIII, a Tudor, acquired a kingly record for marriages. Elizabeth, another Tudor, made England mistress of the seas. Charles I, a Stuart, lost his head in a palace courtyard. George III, a Hanover, kept his pig-head and lost his country the richest half of North America. Victoria, a Saxe-Coburg, became Empress of India...