Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking on "Russia Today," Dr. Merle Fainsod, instructor in Government, will open the morning session on Wednesday. In the evening a symposium on "Changes in the European Equilibrium in 1984" will be presented under the leadership of Elton Maye, professor of Industrial Research. It will take the form of a diplomatic round table in which each nation involved in European complications is to be represented. Among those taking part are Dr. Eugen Rosenstock-Hussy. Kuno Francke professor of German Art and Culture; William Y. Elliott, professor of Government; and Dr. Olgerd P. M. Sherbowitz-Wetzor, assistant in Slavic languages...
...Godless Yaroslavsky was keeping up a keen fight in the Moscow Press with organized young Red zealots who claim that shock brigadiers like themselves have no time for the bliss of placid wedlock. The rumpus started when Komsomolskaya Pravda, newsorgan of the 5,000,000 Communist Youths, printed a symposium of letters from its readers...
...Status of Women," Here was a subject near and dear to the heart of Helen Rogers Reid, and on which she could have given competent testimony. But she left the symposium to her peers, notably three women who spoke by radio from overseas. First of these was Margaret Haig Mackworth, Britain's Viscountess Rhondda...
...Progress but such was certainly the effect of a party given by General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. on the eve of last week's Fair opening (see p. 12). To the General Motors Building he invited an army of U. S. leaders for a prophetic symposium on "Industrial Progress in the Next Century." What some of the guests saw ahead...
...Within ten years fruit from California or Turkestan will be served in London with all the freshness and taste of freshly gathered fruit by suspended animation of both enzymes and micro-organisms.- Researcher Charles S. Ash of California Packing Corp. Tartly the New York Times summed up the symposium: "The responses reveal 300 leaders fluttering unimaginatively on the ground. ... It is impossible for them to conceive Utopia without our cement, our improved bakery, our metal furniture, our tractors, our rustless wire-rope, our quick-drying lacquers...