Word: standpoints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speeches I heard I liked best the statement of Archbishop Hayes, read by Father Kelly of the Catholic Writers' Guild. Here, too, was Elmer Rice, author of The Adding Machine. I understand that he is to frame the statement on book censorship from the radical standpoint for the Author's League, while George Barr Baker will draft one on the conservative side. In my humble opinion, political censorship of books is inevitable, though tragic. It is inevitable because of the attitude of certain authors and publishers who definitely trade on the sensational and salacious character of some...
...other members will be Miss E. R. Abbot of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, as a lecturer on the history and appreciation of painting and sculpture, Mr. J. C. Tidden of Rice Institute, Texas, as instructor in painting and lecturer on the fine arts from the standpoint of the creative artist, and others whose names will be announced later...
...invidious work known as the ex-Kaiser's War Memoirs. It is impossible to escape from the logic of M. Viviani's scathing denunciation of the ex-Kaiser's tacit inculpation in the events which preceded the world-wide cataclysm. The author has written this book from the traditional standpoint of a French nationalist. There is no screen to impartiality. The object is to prove first of all the ex-Kaiser's guilt and then the incrimination of high personages in Germany in the dishonorable plot to force war on the world. M. Viviani not only accomplishes what he sets...
From the President's standpoint, however, it would be decidedly unwise. Mark Sullivan, able Washington correspondent of The New York Tribune, says: " There have been few things that hurt the Administration so much as the disclosure that liquor was being sold on the ships owned and operated by the United States Shipping Board." The President ordered that to cease some time ago, and now to rescind that order would be to open himself once more to criticism...
Particularly did Mr. Ford condemn the present tendency of manufacturers to scramble for men and materials by bidding up commodity prices and wages, as not only unsound from the individual manufacturer's standpoint, but dangerous to the continuance of present prosperity. He characterized the prevalent desire to "do two years' business in one " as " killing the goose" and he stated that, although the Ford Company had orders to make 10,000 cars a day, he " did not propose to strain his production facilities by such methods...