Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congressional elections, his group would undertake an expert survey of the electorate's real feeling and "mandate." This was in definite defiance of Franklin Roosevelt's comfortable theory that the 1938 election results were an agglomerate of local issues & personalities, not evidence of a national trend...
...discipline, and its completion was the signal for two of the liveliest Hollywood parties of the season, one given by Edgar John Bergen for the whole cast, and the other by the Masquers Club in honor of Mr. Fields. At the latter, Dr. Leo Rosten, making a Carnegie Corporation survey of the cinema industry, paid touching tribute to the guest of honor: "Any man who hates babies and dogs can't be all bad." Not the least astonishing thing about You Can't Cheat an Honest Man is that it is almost as good fun to watch...
...Student Council last night entered the three week-old controversy over the non-reappointment of Robin D. Feild '30, assistant professor of Fine Arts, with the announcement that a committee has been appointed to "survey the position of the Fine Arts Department in Harvard college...
This is only one aspect of a much larger problem,--the whole question of coalescing, enlarging, and correlating various fields of study. This question is now under the deliberation of both the Student Council and University Hall. Regarding the more limited field of elementary survey courses, it is quite possible that some time in the near future Harvard may set up a system of introductory courses similar to those at Chicago and Columbia Universities. There, several fields are included under a few very broad topics such as the Humanities and the Physical Sciences...
Thereupon last week's look-see into insurance began to diverge from the Armstrong pattern of 33 years ago. The Armstrong Commission was primarily interested in insurance by itself; the Monopoly Committee is out to survey "the economic power inherent in the vast investment funds controlled by insurance companies. . . ." Today the largest 49 legal reserve companies hold 11% of the U. S. debt, 9.9% of all outstanding municipal bonds, 22.9% of all railroad bonds, 22% of the public utility debt, 15% of the industrial debt, 14.5% of urban mortgages. The Metropolitan alone now invests...