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...Prof. John Maynard Keynes, world famed economist who recently espoused the equally famed Russian dancer, Mile. Lydia Lopokova (TIME, Aug. 17, MILESTONES), came forward with a plan to resuscitate the Liberal Party. He suggested that it mix politics with sex questions ; more specifically, to include birth control, economic freedom of women and reform of the marriage laws in its party program. Said he in part: The questions which I group together as sex questions have not been party questions in the past. . . . There now are no subjects in which the big general public is more interested. Birth control, marriage laws...
...ceremony began with a rendition of Brahms' mournful First Symphony, played by the Philharmonic Orchestra. This over, Prof. Platz of Bonn University acted as public orator, skilfully avoided use of the word "republic." He declared that the "outside world still listens keenly when it hears the name of Weimar, although it is not thoroughly convinced when the Constitution of Weimar is mentioned." The Constitution, he added, is "holding a middle ground between Communism in the East and individualism in the West. "We must," said he, "emancipate ourselves from this mad tendency to permit our national life to become Americanized...
...work- from a dozen members of his Senior class. The students had gathered their information, resolved their theories, on visits to numerous U. S. institutions of higher learning (TIME, Aug. 4, 1924). Then, in May, President Hopkins received and had published A Study of the Liberal College by Prof. Richardson of the Dartmouth Chemistry Department, whom he had commissioned to visit colleges abroad, especially in England (TIME...
...Typical research accomplished with the aid of Rockefeller Funds: Prof. A. A. Michelson's (University of Chicago) experiment with light rays in a pipe-rectangle to check the Einstein relativity theory (TIME, Aug. 11, 1924); Professor Niels Bohr's (University of Copenhagen) atomic investigations in the infra-red region of the spectrum (TIME, Feb. 4, 1924), for which he last week received the Barnard Gold Medal from Columbia University...
Meantime, opponents of the Baldwin Government have not hesitated to attribute the current British business depression to this "high money policy." Prof. John Maynard Keynes in particular has assailed the gold resumption as a cause of unemployment and slackness in the British export trade. The cut in the Bank rate may be interpreted as the answer of the Baldwin Government to these charges. Yet undoubtedly the rate reduction has been really due to more serious factors, and has been justified by the strengthened gold position of the Bank of England...