Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complex game of musical chairs which appointments of U.S. Ambassadors often resemble, only member left standing when the music stopped last week appeared to be Joseph E. Davies, long thought to have an eye on the London job. Back from his post...
...general strikes, strikes for a closed shop or the checkoff, strikes where grievances have not been presented in advance, strikes accompanied "by continuous and systematic acts of violence and intimidation," strikes in violation of contracts, strikes "to prevent the use of materials, equipment or services." Another N. A. M. thought: "Government should protect the right to engage in lawful strikes by lawful means, but its primary obligation is to protect the right to work...
Because the Treasury thought Mr. Mellon had a larger 1931 income than he reported, it asked $3,075,103 in additional taxes and penalties. Among the important issues that this brought up was the many million dollars worth of pictures which he had given to his Andrew W. Mellon Educational & Charitable Trust, and which the Treasury did not consider bona fide. Mr. Mellon retorted that he had overpaid the Treasury some $139,000 and charged political persecution. A Pittsburgh grand jury refused to indict him. During the three years the case dragged along before the 15-man Board...
Altogether the present editors of the magazine have done a courageous thing--in setting forth so vivid an illustration of what the Monthly once was. They act a standard and issue a challenge, to be taken up by their own college generation. The thought, taste, and expression of this generation are bound to be different from those of twenty and fifty years ago. Let it represent the very best that Harvard can yield today, and twenty, fifty, years hence another retrospective issue will receive the welcome now extended to this...
...home youth is led, through the ideas of his parents, to regard society as static and immovable. College exposes him to more liberal thought; but at the same time his teachers, failing to realize that in him is the power to interpret for society by sheer inspiration the sum of knowledge, speak uncompromising dogma. By indifferently tolerating the student's enthusiasm, they tend to make him doubt his own ideals. But still persisting, youth enters the world, the exhortations of commencement orators in his cars, only to find all doors closed. Deprived of his rightful command when in the prime...