Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Colonel Charles R. (Break-it-up) Apted '06, paternal guardian of Harvard Freshmen, wined, dined, and danced last night at his palatial mansion on Sumner Road, the hot flames of rebellion and riot swept through Harvard Yard with the violence of an unleashed tornado...
...light of this speech, it is interesting to recall the origin of the term, Forgotten Man. In 1883 William Graham Sumner, then Professor of Political and social Science in Yale University, delivered an address under the title of "The Forgotten Man." Summer defined him as "the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes, and is never heard of out of his little circle." The lecturer then went on to say: "We all seem to be under the delusion that the rich pay the taxes . . It is the Forgotten Man who pays . . He works, he votes...
Other courses of current interest will be given by Professor Sumner H. Slichter in "Industrial Relations," and a seminar in the "Human Relations of Administration" given jointly by Elton Mayo, Professor of Industrial Research and Lloyd Warner, Professor of Social Anthropology...
...wrangle for the good reason that nobody knew what the terms of the forthcoming agreement were. In Cuba and Washington, manufacturers, producers, importers, were given informal hearings. No sworn testimony was taken. Interested parties were allowed to present their views, claims and kicks off the record. Then Assistant Secretary Sumner Welles and his Cuban friends drew up a "treaty" to the ratification of which the Senate does not have to advise and consent. Only when it was signed and had become the law of the land was it made public for the first time...
...clock one afternoon last week five diplomats were sitting down in the State Department to pen and ink. There were Dr. Cosme de la Torriente. Cuban Secretary of State, Dr. Manuel Marquez Sterling, Cuban Ambassador to Washington, and Secretary Hull. There also were Assistant Secretary Sumner Welles and Jefferson Caffery, the past and present Ambassadors to Cuba. Their purpose was to set their hands and seals upon the first reciprocal trade agreement negotiated under the new tariff bargaining law (TIME, June 18). A few minutes later President Roosevelt at the White House proclaimed that the new tariffs on Cuban products...