Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Sunday's People's Rally was important for two reasons: 1) it marked Radio Wheelhorse John B. Kennedy's 15th year on the air; and 2) it sought public opinion on whether the Neutrality Act should be changed to permit shipments of arms to nations which have been attacked. To take the affirmative on last Sunday's question, Kennedy picked in-&-out Liberal Oswald Garrison Villard, was surprised to find Villard an out-&-out neutrality man. Keeping Villard to say the nays, he then got Nation Correspondent Louis Fischer for the affirmative...
Samuel Wendell Williston Shor '42, of Winthrop House, may be the nation's youngest college president if a deal he has started comes through in the near future...
...these are the standards, the institutions of higher learning throughout the nation have erred considerably, and might better drop the intangibles of education and concentrate on the practices of a trade or business school...
...what purports to be "the first statistical proof of how the nation as a whole values a college education," Fortune's February Survey of Public Opinion reveals that almost half of the nation's families believe that a college man has the best chance for "success...
...poll. The values and purposes of higher learning are reduced to terms of the dollar. America's families, it seems, consider the four years of undergraduate life to be a capital investment whose worth can be evaluated in terms of financial return alone. The universities of the nation are great processing factories, the success of their efforts being measured in terms of the economic potentiality of the finished product...