Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Large, baldish and worldly, he was no ivory tower judge. He believed that social and economic phenomena "give life and substance to the law." Lawyers disliked his air of domineering omniscience, which seemed seldom justified by his understanding of their cases. And some lawyers worried about his off-bench business affairs which were known to be extensive and intricate...
Designed, in the words of Dean John H. Williams, head of the school, as a "means to bring the University and the Public Service nearer together," the new center will fill a dual function as a training field for graduate students in the social sciences and as a research institution for men already doing government administrative work...
Emphasizing in his report the important role of the consultants who will be drawn from public service for work in the new school, Dean Williams said, "It is the consultantship program which most clearly differentiates the work of the School from the more usual sort of instruction in the social sciences...
...America's stake in the peaceful resolution of European difficulty. Realistically speaking, it is futile to talk of isolation; in order to remain neutral in the event of a major European war it would be necessary, according to a survey made some time ago by the National Economic and Social Planning Organization, to limit all trade to peace-time levels and abandon American shipping except for narrowly defined neutral zones. Rigid control of the credit and finance activities of the country would be essential; also, in order to keep our economic system from becoming geared to a war-time pitch...
...Ivory Tower, The Criterion also published the first poems of W. H. Auden. Stephen Spender, many another young radical. A Tory in politics,, an Anglo-Catholic in religion, Eliot held to his own beliefs in criticism. As an editor he acknowledged the talent, scholarship and imagination of writers whose social and political beliefs he sharply opposed...