Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempts on the part of businessmen to write into the NRA codes measures favorable to their respective businesses, has also brought into the town its quota of shady characters--chiefly gamblers, and touts of all descriptions. The writer positively knows of one instance where a prominent scientist was accosted by a woman of shady occupation in front of the White House. Be this as it may, the District is still very clean, compared to its sister cities...
Possibly the most interesting aspect of Mr. Florinsky's book, from the point of view of the political scientist, is the account of this first experiment in international government. He is convinced it has failed miserably, whether or no because of the fact that for years France controlled the League's Governing Commission. Suffice it to say that under the League's control, the Saar has suffered economically more than at any other stage in her history. The Saarlanders have clearly resented a government with no knowledge of their culture and traditions. "The Saar Struggle" may be said...
...University of Chicago professors lifted their eyes from current strife for a glimpse at the future. "Planning in a democracy," declared venerable Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam, "is a co-operative enterprise, requiring widespread sympathy and support, beyond party and beyond region. Business can block it; labor, agriculture, the middle class, can block it. But the danger then is that we drift away from planning, not into a blissful heaven of politics and economics, to live forever with golden harps, but to a point where force mounts the throne and writes a plan in blood and steel...
...prior development which culminated in that age is at once masterly and full. One would like, above all to linger over more of his statements than this: "The end of (Greek) science was not to do but to know: felix qui potuit rorum cognoscore causas. The reward of the scientist was to share the blessedness of the immortal gods who are eternally satisfied with the contemplation of the ordered course of the heavens and the vision of eternal law." As he points out this ideal was as incomprehensible to the mediaeval Christian as it is to the modern Englishman...
...introduced long ago, notably by Rev. Dr. William Norman Guthrie. Currently Manhattan's religious dancing is provided not in Dr. Guthrie's church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie but in those which are welcoming stately, white-haired Dancer Ruth St. Denis, 54, good Christian Scientist. Three years ago Miss St. Denis founded a Society for the Spiritual Arts whose 100 members meet weekly in her studio for readings from the world's great prophets -Buddha, Christ, Mohammed, Zoroaster, Krishna et al. Before an altar, serious-minded Miss St. Denis or members of the Society...