Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next day, Senator James Byrnes of South Carolina hatched a handy little plan which even arch-isolationists were said to have approved and which the State Department immediately endorsed. "Within the next few days," said Senator Byrnes, the State Department would open negotiations for barter trade with Great Britain, Holland, and Belgium, swapping raw materials such as U. S. surplus cotton (TIME, April 10) to lay in "emergency stocks" of strategic materials (rubber, tin) in which those nations hold the world monopoly...
...ideas over the possibilities of getting some Lebensraum ("living room") in less populated areas of the world. Last week Argentines had a case of Hitler jitters when it was asserted by Noticias Gráficas, sensational Buenos Aires newspaper, that ambitious Nazi agents had presented their Government with a plan for annexing Patagonia...
...most cases," says she, "the ideal plan to challenge a young hopeful . . . would be to send him or her to a practical school of technical training (if one exists) where the pupils are taught to drive a nail straight, or saw a plank, miter a few corners and plane the surface of rough wood until the hands become used to holding and directing tools...
This week Dr. Lynd joined the ranks of planners who hope to save men from the abyss by a big blueprint. He published a book with a startling title: Knowledge for What?* In it, Professor Lynd proposed that the U. S., having failed to get a plan from educators, preachers, politicians, businessmen or engineers, be brought to order by social scientists...
...combine its own field with other related fields in a general program of humanism. The exact opposite is the truth. The first combined field of the sort described was not History and Literature but "Literature," in which either Greek or Latin is combined with some Modern Language. This plan was initiated by members of the Departments of the Classics and Modern Languages in 1903, History and Literature following in 1906. I happened to be a member of both committees and remember the circumstances well. It was in 1914 that the Department of the Classics, with its humanistic friends, organized similar...