Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...optimistic outlook for journalism which Walter Lippman pictures in the current Yale Review will be balm to those hurt minds which have seen the decline of civilization in the scare head lines, scandal stories, and lurid illustrations of the tabloids. Mr. Lippman fore-tells a general revulsion against the romantic tricks of the yellow press which will lead to a new "objective" journalism. Fresh reporting methods rather than sensational stories will be the means of preventing papers from acquiring the soporific faculty of government reports...
Born in Massachusetts 41 years ago, Mr. Joslin has a round, solemn face, a friendly manner, a figure as plump as Mr. Akerson's. His outlook on government is serious, heavy. Married, father of two sons, he gets fun out of tending a small but elaborate flower garden behind his Chevy Chase home. When President Hoover returns from his Caribbean cruise Mr. Joslin will retire from the Colorado Building's so-called "Brain Trust"* to begin his White House duties...
There is undoubtedly some basis for the point of view of Dr. Lang of the University of Chicago, who says American colleges are being impregnated with practical courses which breed a materialistic outlook. In some cases the reaction against the classical curriculum has been carried to extremes. But, when Dr. Lang comes to criticize the high schools on the same grounds, he seems to fall into the common error of considering the high school purely as the hand-maiden of the college...
...some $772,000,000 securities in a sinking fund reserve to pay off the bonus in 1945 which would have to be sold to raise cash in addition to floating a $1,000,000,000 bond issue. Heavy refunding of Liberty Loan obligations in the near future complicated the outlook still more. Declared Secretary Mellon: "the revenues of the Government are steadily falling behind. . . . The Treasury is already in a difficult position. . . . I regret I cannot approve of the Treasury assuming the obligations imposed by this bill. I cannot too urgently recommend that this measure should have reconsideration in order...
...supplement to work done in American schools and colleges cannot readily be overstated. Whereas the large European Universities as Geneva and the Sorbonne in Paris have a large percentage of foreigners in their student enrollment, the Universities of America are prone to be localized and essentially nationalistic in outlook. Furthermore few have the opportunity of associating with European students here, as they are so thinly scattered throughout the country...