Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that Ford's theories rest on the assumption, as he himself says, that mankind is fundamentally good, is his own justification. The industrial system, he feels, is wrong "because it is devoted to making money instead of to making human values." An old timer in the automobile trade once told me that in New York, at some of the first auto shows, there was not such a firm belief in the goodness of human nature among those whom Ford took occasion to visit on his interfering expeditions. He was not such a recognized philosopher in those days, of course...
...Industrial Problems, President George Hermann Derry of Detroit's Marygrove College (Catholic) had said: "A few international Jews hold a stranglehold on the world supply of gold that enables them to decide the destiny of nations, to make and unmake cabinets, and to rule the fate of mankind...
...generally conceded that this curriculum is a survival from other times and that it must be revised to fit the present. One suggestion that is being tried includes making a study of mankind's progress and problems a center for much of the course. Another requires of all pupils a general understanding of the methods and the more necessary fundamental skills, ideas and applications of mathematics and science instead of limited fields such as algebra or physics, which would become electives...
...brain). To the autumn meeting of the National Academy of Sciences at Cambridge. Mass, last week (see p. 50) Dr. Simon Flexner, director of Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, reported that Institute researchers confirmed the widely accepted theory that this pathway is traveled by one of mankind's deadliest enemies-the virus of infantile paralysis...
...must be your art that is false. Mr. Philbrick's meaning is only that he doesn't like capitalist art, which is quite all right, but something other than a law of nature. And his peroration is dubious. "This leaves us the Revolutionary ideal of the emancipation of mankind from the Capitalist grasp as the only inspiration for a really vital art in the present and future." I protest, as a connoisseur of prophecy. Mr. Philbrick can see into the future no farther than John Doe and I, and anyone who cared to predict the exact opposite would be just...