Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual, therefore, the British Foreign Office thought last week in terms of both hemispheres and in terms of war and politics ahead of economics. Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is none too pleased that the Chinese Government has now taken in the Chinese Communists and that envoys dash by chartered plane between Nanking and Moscow. Although President Roosevelt was offering the United Kingdom the chance of the century to extract the U. S. from isolation and team it up with Great Britain, this week Downing Street had its careful fingers crossed...
...Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn at $260,000 annually, Hollywood's highest writing stipend. Soon thereafter he went on leave to try compacting two more ideas into three acts each. In the tortured and tortuous mental life of his hero Sterns in To Quito and Back, friends of Playwright Hecht thought they saw more than a trace of autobiography...
...15th president of Yale. In Latin, President Seymour replied. This 200-year-old ritual completed, Historian Seymour mounted the pulpit, warned that "Yale must be vigilantly self-critical . . . must beware of the peril of isolation," pledged "absolute intellectual freedom," exhorted Yalemen: "The duty of protecting freedom of thought and speech is the more compelling in these days when the liberal spirit in the world at large is in deadly peril. Every student at Yale should be impressed with the conviction that only through the spread of the liberal attitude in life can the nation find protection from an obscurantist reaction...
...Bailey Hall in Ithaca, N. Y., Sociologist Edmund Ezra Day, 53, was installed as fifth president of Cornell University, proceeded to denounce "armed, aggressive and arrogant" force abroad, to issue this defiance: "When men in power conclude that ideas should come from authority and not from thought, men of reason must give battle...
...president of the Church's National Council, its business and missionary body. To call the presiding bishop an archbishop as was suggested in 1934, is neither recommended nor disapproved in the commission's report. Presiding Bishop Perry's term is up, and last week he was thought agreeable to being reelected. Other likely candidates: Bishop Cook, Bishop Hobson, Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill of Boston, Bishop George Ashton Oldham of Albany, Bishop George Craig Stewart of Chicago...