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...Heard an exciting debate between University of Iowa's George D. Stoddard and Stanford's Lewis Terman. Question: Is a child's I. Q. determined more by heredity or by environment? Dr. Stoddard reported that he had raised the I. Q.s of children of dull parents to that of children of college professors by placing them in good homes (TIME, Nov. 7). Said Dr. Terman: "If [these claims] can be substantiated, we have here the most important scientific discovery in the last thousand years. . . " Either the educational programs provided by other investigators are less stimulating than those...
...month before Franklin Roosevelt's $8,995,000,000 1940 budget appeared, conservative Democrat Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia issued an anticipatory blast at continued deficit financing. Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles replied to him in a letter that filled three newspaper columns (TIME, Jan. 2). Last week as Congress took a savage nibble at the President's special Relief budget (see p. 77), Senator Byrd replied to Mr. Eccles in six newspaper columns. Juiciest points of Byrd answers...
...They brought worrying to the bedside such influential Democratic physicians as John Nance Garner, South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd. In Boston last month Senator Byrd expounded his worries about spending which he blamed on the "crackpot" .theories of Marriner Stoddard Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. This week Chairman Eccles, a banker who favors pump-priming within limits, answered by a letter which he gave to the press, lecturing Critic Byrd and the nation on "the pertinent facts" about the Budget, Taxes, Debt...
...Strange and heretical to these orthodox ones are reports that have come during the past six years from a little group of psychologists at Iowa's State University in Iowa City. Last week, before a conference of distinguished educators in Manhattan, Iowa's Psychologist George Dinsmore Stoddard laid astounding proofs supporting Iowa's heresy: that an individual's I. Q. can be changed...
Moonfaced, enthusiastic Dr. Stoddard, 41-year-old father of four, is director of Iowa's history-making Child Welfare Research Station and its 60 psychologists. At the conference last week, conducted by famed Ben D. Wood's Educational Records Bureau and several other groups, Dr. Stoddard reported not only his facts but his conclusions about how intelligence is created...