Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scientific thought is probably our most useful method of reasoning but we must not consider it the only way to think, Henry D. Aiken, professor of Philosophy, aid Monday night at the first fall term Adams House Forum...
...that was altogether heartening. It was also heartening that a man like Gerhart Eisler was able to speak in Harvard University. Officials in many institutions would have been horrified even at the thought of giving a lecture hall to an international Communist. ("What would the alumni say? What would the conservative press say?") Harvard's administration happily disregarded these and other outside pressures; Harvard undergraduates had the right to listen to Eisler or to stay away from the meeting...
...Administration and traders, who had thought support loans and exports would prop up prices, were worried. Irate farm-bloc Congressmen called in Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan to ask a Congressman's perennial question: Who's to blame? Brannan could do no better than trot out a familiar Administration devil: the speculator. He ordered the Chicago Board of Trade to dig up the names and employment of all buyers & sellers on the fateful Tuesday. Speculators must have been to blame, said Brannan, because he could not see any other reason for such a drastic shakeout...
...company offered that oilmen were aghast. Furthermore, the world oil supply was already so ample that U.S. imports from the Middle East and Venezuela are being cut back. Last week there were signs that gasoline prices might soon be coming down. In view of that, Getty's rivals thought he would have to step some to make his concession-if he gets...
...trying its own complaint Giannini seemed to take it for granted that he would get no favorable decision. But neither A.P. nor Eccles thought that the hearing was any more than a sparring round. The fight to the finish would probably be in the U.S. Supreme Court...