Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pollard, who is president of the society, will review the history of technological unemployment, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the system, and indicate the causes for the division of opinion between the economist and the laborer...
...Hoover head nodded approvingly last week as the President read a significant article on War debts and reparations by Thomas William Lamont, Morgan partner and co-author of the Young Plan, in The Saturday Review of Literature. Mr. Lament's thesis: Europe must now readjust its intergovernment obligations within the Young Plan and on its own initiative. Said he: "Neither Germany, France nor any other country should gain the idea that President Hoover, having undertaken with his one-year debt holiday to meet an emergency, is necessarily called upon to make the next move. This whole problem...
...took roughly a year to get a case before the Supreme Court, another year to bring it to argument and perhaps a third year to get an opinion. Today, under new rules, the court decides within a week whether or not it will grant a review, hears argument within a month or so, renders a decision within the term. When the court first sat last month for its 143rd term, it carried over 113 cases from last June and received 251 new ones (none of large political moment) accumulated during the summer. In a week it swept 103 cases...
Awarded. To Jane Addams, co-founder of Chicago's Hull House: the annual $5,000 Achievement Award (for women only) of Pictorial Review for her work in social welfare and international peace. She announced she would give the money to Chicago's unemployed...
...Standards; of coronary occlusion (constriction of the heart ar-tery), immediately after dictating a tribute to his old friend Thomas Alva Edison (see below); in Boston. With Judge Robert Grant and President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, he was appointed by Governor Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts to review the evidence of the Sacco-Vanzetti case in 1927. Three months ago he said he hoped to live 100 years...