Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herbert Lehman. A principal speaker at New York City's Jackson Day dinner -from which, to increase the scope of the fiesta, Postmaster General James A. Farley introduced the President to his radio audience-was New York's Governor Herbert Lehman. Considerably farther removed from the New Deal than he was before he objected to the President's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court last summer, Governor Lehman delivered a speech which, in the oratorical chorus, represented counterpoint rather than close harmony. Its strongest note: "A political party, like government itself, must be the servant...
When students participate in controversial issues, a minority group may tie the hands of the majority by unwise actions which compromise the organization as a whole, and limit the scope of its effectiveness and growth. It is to be hoped that Student Union "action" will be diverted into fields of intellectual leadership, with much intelligent, academic, and practical thinking applied to the problems of today...
...hygiene than has been customary because of the growing complexity of human relations and the need to turn men out of the University better qualified to take their places in the affairs of life. University men, like all others, have problems to be solved that fall beyond the scope of formal lectures and the activities of the offices of the various deans...
...purpose of the book, according to the foreword, is "to aid in bringing about a greater cohesiveness in the classes, to provide a medium whereby the student may breaden the scope of his friendship and acquaintance, and to serve as a dignified record of the School...
...evoked far more literary enthusiasm than official publications usually raise. Said Critic Lewis Mumford as the first volumes appeared, "These guidebooks are the finest contribution to American patriotism that has been made in our generation." Said New York Times''s Robert Duffus, as the full nation-wide scope of the Project appeared: "The guides . . . will enable us for the first time to hold the mirror up to all America." Although the Massachusetts guide was denounced by Governor Hurley for its reference to the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, less sensitive readers judged the books' objective viewpoint as fair enough...