Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DELIGHTFULLY UNBIASED ARTICLE ON THE SOVIET TRIALS [TIME, Feb. 8], WE FIND WE HAVE A CONFESSION TO MAKE. WE CONFESS WE ARE BEWILDERED. STARTING WITH LIBERALS' ASSUMPTION THAT POSSIBLY THE RUSSIAN EXPERIMENT SHOULD NOT BE ENTIRELY DISCOURAGED, BEING BASED ON AT LEAST AS HIGH IDEALS OF HUMAN PROGRESS AS THOSE OF CERTAIN WELL KNOWN FINANCIAL SUPPORTERS OF WHAT WAS HIS NAME OH YES LANDON, CONTINUING WITH THE FURTHER LIBERAL ASSUMPTION THAT POSSIBLY THE HITLER EXPERIMENT IN NAZIISM IS NOT QUITE WHAT IS MEANT BY DEMOCRACY, WE MUST CONFESS THAT WE CAN'T EXACTLY UNDERSTAND WHAT TROTSKY...
...lawyer of distinction, William L. Ransom brings to the Conference wide knowledge of public utility law and of the course of legal progress and education. Graduated from the Cornell Law School in 1905, he was identified with the Presidential campaign of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, and then took up various duties with the New York Public Service Commission. In 1917 Ransom was Republican and Fusion candidate for the position of District Attorney of New York...
...Crimson" wishes to extend its informal greetings to all guests and delegates to the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Conference on "The Role of Government in the National Economy." It has so far neglected to comment on those who are responsible for the Conference's progress from a vision to an actuality, from a speechless vacuum to a forum of discussion...
Since last November, a $1,500,000 libel suit has been in progress before a Chicago circuit court. Last week, when the case went to the jury, no Chicago daily, no Chicago news service had carried a line about it. Reason: defendant was the Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper") and publishers usually do not play up the libel difficulties of their brethren.* What made the Tribune's trouble all the more remarkable were the character and quality of its accuser, Harrison McGowen Parker, who in his high- flying career has been business manager of the Tribune, publisher...
...Chicago promoter named Ivan I. Spear. Three days after the Dionne Quintuplets were born, Papa Oliva Dionne signed a contract with Promoter Spear to exhibit himself, his wife and ten children* at Chicago's World's Fair under the auspices of the Century of Progress Tour Bureau. Net revenues, including photographic rights, were to be divided: Tour Bureau 70%, Papa Dionne 23%, Rev. Daniel Routhier (Papa Dionne's manager) 7%. For signing the agreement Papa Dionne...