Word: sociologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairman of the Annual Dinner Meeting to be held in the Ballroom at 6.30 o'clock at which the speakers will be R. M. MacIver and Professor Sorokin. MacIver and Professor Sorokin. MacIver, author of many sociological works used in courses here will present some reflections of a sociologist on present-day affairs. Professor Sorokin has elected to talk on "The Movement of Important Internal Disturbances in History." He is expected to introduce his extensive data on the prevalence of war throughout the centuries...
Behind Benito Mussolini's frown are concealed the talents of a tabloid editor, a great phrasemaker, sociologist, seer and conclusion-jumper. Last week his own newspaper, Il Popolo d'Italia, in the course of a routine sermon on the evils of birth-control, pointed directly to the U. S.: "If the declining birthrate continues at its present rate in the U. S., the number of biers will surpass the number of cradles. Blind and foolish arc these ignorant destroyers who believe they can efficaciously combat the Depression by sterility. There...
...Christian Century urged that exemption be reconsidered; denominational bodies discussed it and last week an even firmer opponent appeared in the person of Rev. Charles Stelzle, Presbyterian sociologist and publicist. In an interview in the New York World-Telegram he said...
...necessities was adopted last autumn in Dayton; Howard Whipple Green, Cleveland statistician, author of exhaustive studies of Cleveland's population and buying power; Eugene Henry Klaber of American Institute of Architects; Cincinnati's able Lawyer Alfred Bettman, vice president of the National Conference on City Planning; Sociologist Edith Elmer Wood, author of Recent Trends in American Housing. The conference talked & talked, adopted resolutions endorsing most opinions advanced. Chief opinions: 1) slum dwellers should be moved to homesteads on city outskirts, encouraged to provide their own food, maintain their own cottages; 2) the Federal Government should eliminate blighted areas...
...Edward Henry Harriman and founded the socialite Junior League, she is no conservative social idler. An ardent liberal with Democratic leanings, she believes in a co-operative commonwealth and the utmost protection for consumers against industrial profiteering. To her board was appointed Professor William Fielding Ogburn, University of Chicago sociologist who worked on Herbert Hoover's mammoth social trends survey. When the board commenced computing costs of living and methods of keeping it down, Mrs. Rumsey and Professor Ogburn found themselves at sword's point. Mrs. Rumsey thought Professor Ogburn was too inclined to favor Industry. Professor Ogburn...