Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well the relation between faculty and undergraduates may be exploited. Similar meetings, extended to the various fields of instruction in the several houses, should prove of advantage. They imply a certain enthusiasm and cooperation from the students which is now lacking, but publicity and stimulating programs can stir the indifferent. If house dinners of the usual sort were limited to occasions when speakers or entertainers of real interest are available, student attention would be stimulated. With wise direction the house dinner would be a significant part of house life rather than an empty formality...
...excitement when 16 months ago the President created an Executive Council to keep all the strings of the administrative lyre tuned to one key. They remembered the headlines when, five months later, the President created a new and similar coordinating body called the National Emergency Council. They remembered the stir again when the Industrial Emergency Committee was picked last September to settle the New Deal's policies. And they could not become excited when last week the Executive Council was merged with the original National Emergency Council and the Industrial Emergency Committee was made a subcommittee of the new body...
Cocky Japan is again attempting to stir up strife in the highly unstable Pacific area, Following her egotistical demands for equality with Britain and the United States, she now announces a plan for strict government control of a monopolistic nature over the oil business of her sponsored empire in Manchukuo. Not only does this policy contravene the "open door" provisions of the Washington Treaty but it also demonstrates Japan's willingness to risk the hostility of the great nations by attacking them in their vulnerable spot--their purses...
...deep mystery. It follows naturally from the great American college custom of playing at life, of being absorbed more in the petty ripples of campus society, and in some cases campus politics, than in the really significant events which are moving the world at large. But how to stir the American undergraduate body from its tradition of cynical lethargy and push it into the outskirts of the public struggle is a problem to tax the wisdom of a sage. A not entirely hopeless problem, however. Joe College, as we have seen, has passed on, and in his time...
...which Mr. Morgenthau may be tempted to use to pay for the New Deal. No sign has he given yet of desiring to use them, for they would scare capital, upset the market for his bonds. But the temptation will be ever present. For the alternative, higher taxes, will stir up popular opposition and a good part of the Brain Trust fears that their effect would be deflationary...