Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Already the ness that Yale will make the President a doctor of laws has led to some discussion as to how far he and his policies are actually indorsed by the general body of Yale men. While he made "the forgotten man," of Professor William G. Sumner, one of Yale's greatest teachers, a figure in the campaign of 1932, the New Haven Journal-Courier suggests that "Mr. Roosevelt has used some of Sumner's phrases, to be sure, but only by a cruel mayhem on their context." That is undoubtedly true; the new deal runs counter to much...
...both Sumner and Hadley are dead, and times and conditions have changed. The point is, if there is any value in the honorary degree as an encouragement to independent thinking and courageous public service, that it ought not to be conditioned, even in far less conspicuous cases than that of the President, upon the indorsement of specific views and conclusions. One suspects that limitation of that character -- domination by hide bound and ultraconservative elements -- has in the past prevented Yale and other institutions from awarding honorary degrees which would have done them great credit and which as the years have...
...Government made a martyr of Ramon Grau San Martin last January when "garage diplomacy," initiated by U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles, forced him to end his four-month regime in resignation. The youngish (49) bachelor surgeon moped off to Mexico City and exile. His successor as Provisional President, Carlos Mendieta, has played a smart and liberal game but has not erased the memory of martyred Grau from the minds of Cuba's lower classes. Still practically ungovernable, they believe in Grau. Last week 100,000 of them, students, workmen, Negroes, sailors, swarmed around the docks in Havana Harbor...
Harvard will probably be represented by Sebert E. Davenport, III '34, Frank W. Jones, Jr. '35, Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, August C. Helmhelz '36, Germain G. Glidden '36, Alden Bryan '35, Marvin P. Richmond '34, Willard E. Ingalls, Jr. '35, and Sumner Redman...
...buttressed his argument with quotations from that sturdy champion of laissez-faire, the late famed William Graham Sumner ("It is not the function of the state to make men happy") but trumpeted: "I find difficulty in consenting to the abandonment of a scheme of government which for 150 years has made us happier and more prosperous than the people of any other nation...