Word: topic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot be expected to be very interesting. Mason's Economics 11a and b, on the history and economics of Socialism, while they are not well organized, represent--especially the history--a field which has been practically ignored in the social sciences, although it is listed as a special topic for the correlation exam--the History of Political and Economic Thought. A course on the History of Economic Theory is notably lacking, and the History of Socialism could well be matched with a History of Capitalism, Sociology 3 comes nearest to filling this gap now, but it loans loss towards economics...
...Connecticut, within an hour or two's easy ride from any Manhattan bar, lies the greatest concentration of literary and intellectual celebrities and near-celebrities in the U. S. Some live there all year round, others appear in the summer. Tilling of the soil is widespread; as a topic of conversation it is universal. It was inevitable that one day from this bucolic Parnassus should come forth an urbane country weekly. This week it came forth: the Connecticut Nutmeg, an 8-page tabloid with no pictures except two large nutmegs on either side of the masthead...
...arms shipments "in violation of a treaty" and the 1921 peace treaty specifically prohibits "importation into Germany of arms, munitions and war materials." That day, Columnist Drew Pearson, co-author of the Merry-Go-Round, attended a State Department press conference at which his column instantly became the main topic of discussion...
...Role of Law in Regulation" is the topic of Dean Landis speech. As a former member of the Federal Trade Commission and, until his appointment here last summer, chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission, he speaks with authority on administrative law and regulation. His viewpoint in this respect was much influenced by a year he spent as secretary to Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the Supreme Court...
Still hopeful of bringing businessmen and schoolmen closer together, Professor Mort appointed a committee to clarify the issues. The committee needed ten topics and 24 subdivisions to catalogue the disagreements. Last week the four businessmen and three educators sat down before an audience of professors and students in Columbia's Milbank Chapel to thresh the matter out. Flanking Dean Russell, they sprawled in their chairs, wriggled and squirmed, stared at the ceiling, never got beyond Subdivision 3 of Topic I. Crux of the argument was not education but the "private enterprise system" v. "planned economy...