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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enemies. In the course of a career filled with action rather than ideas, he has rarely decided on tomorrow's problems today. But John L. Lewis, having cut himself adrift from old-line organized labor and far offshore from the President on whose election he spent half a million, now revolves in the centre of a swirl of social forces that cannot go on swirling indefinitely. If he wants to dominate these forces, he must soon decide not only for what ends, but also how they are to be achieved...
Prophet of Doom. Sitting in his huge office in the United Mine Workers' new, half -million -dollar headquarters, John Lewis thinks expansive thoughts and formulates them into the resounding sentences so suited to the undulating rumble of his voice: "The fabric of culture which has been built up by mankind through enduring centuries of painful toil and sacrifice is menaced today as never before. . . . America is menaced, not by a foreign foe that would storm its battlements, but by the more fearful enemy of domestic strife and savagery." Certain it is that Mr. Lewis' horizon is broad...
...black turning up once more at any stage of the tun were exactly the same as at any other time-i.e., 19 to 18, or a little more than even.* The failure of the frantic red-players to realize this gave the house a profit of several million francs...
More aggressive, wittier and compact is 42-year-old Lancelot Hogben (Mathematics for the Million), an English biologist who calls himself a "scientific humanist" and is a kind of English version of iconoclastic Thorstein Veblen. Writers and statesmen he attacks for their ignorance of science, scientists for their ignorance of social matters. In addition he attacks Marxists, liberals, classical scholarship, "sentimental internationalists," theology, economists, and educators who permit children to study what they like rather than what is good for them (science). On the constructive side, he advocates biotechnology as a way to make nations self-sufficient, thermodynamics...
During the Tercentenary Year the Alumni Directory Office had to send out more than a million pieces of mail, which is the largest amount that they have had to handle in recent years. One of the largest problems of the Office is making sure that all the information on alumni is up-to-date, and every time that a correction comes in for a graduate's address or occupation, all the file cards that contain his name have to be changed, while new metal plates have to be made for the mechanical files...