Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfred campus, was played publicly for the first time last week by Henry S. Wesson of Navasota, Tex., a carillonneur who studied with Director Denyn and, as U. S. representative of Michaux & Michaels, installed a carillon they cast for the Belgian Village at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition...
...such a "good society," ruled by no personal ruler but by the impersonal necessities of economic markets in which governments take part only by regulating against abuses, Walter Lippmann looks for social progress, "the enlargement of the middle class as against the poor and the rich." To him this is not a pious hope but a sober expectation, for he concludes that the economic law which Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini try to attack and impair will compel men to rediscover and to re-establish the essential principles of a liberal society . . . the renascence of liberalism may be regarded as assured...
...court proposal-as well as on most other major issues; we differed from him only in believing that it merited debate and that the opposition had a right to be heard. . . . We wish him well but we shall watch his future progress with some misgivings; we suspect that the spirit of fair play may search him out and plague him in the pages of the New Republic as well...
While waiting for Maurice to leave, Mabel made rapid progress in being "broken down and made over" by Tony, could soon sum up her past activities in ''a decadent unhappy world" thus: "I had been something like an octopus with many arms, a psychic belly, and a highly developed pair of eyes." She learned "to live in the moment," learned self-sufficiency (except when Tony was out of her sight). Particularly she learned something that made it easy to write her candid memoirs, namely, the Indian belief that "the power goes out of truth as soon...
...Bureau, tottering along on meagre appropriations, had not been able to make much progress in the direction of Conservation when, in 1934, President Roosevelt finally gave ear to the agonized howls of 7½ million sportsmen. He appointed a Committee on Wildlife Restoration. The Committee promptly recommended that $25,000,000 be earmarked for the restoration of lands suitable for wild life preserves. It was not forthcoming, but famed Cartoonist-Conservationist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling passed the hat around to various Government agencies before he resigned as Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey, had managed to scratch...