Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were two field-trial events: the three-day Chase Futurity, a test for foxhounds under two years old. and the three-day All-Age Stake, considered the national championship...
...Communications Commission last week begin hearings on monopoly in radio but Thurman Arnold's Department of Justice revealed that it was sniffing monopoly spoor in the building-trade industry; and in Chicago Mr. Arnold's bloodhounds treed the biggest monopoly catch since the oil industry went on trial in Madison year ago-the milk and ice cream industry...
...merely the usual legal attack on Big Business management, the milk-trust charges encompassed union activities and ran the gamut from price-fixing to tales of arson, flogging and stench bombings. Chicago was picked as the locale for the trial because these factors made it represent "in extreme form" what the Department of Justice terms a nationwide milk "situation...
When Professor Laski declared that "This is a revolutionary cpoch" in his lectures on political philosophy last week, he struck a note that is being echoed by political observers all over the world. "Democracy is on trial"; "This century will see a struggle for power between Fascism and Communism," and other such cries are heard on all sides. Those who do not predict a revolution at least admit that the growing complexity of governmental and economic problems have come near swamping the mind of man in his attempt to seek a solution for the problems of politics...
...democracy is indeed on trial it seems obvious that Harvard should see to it that her graduates, as future leaders of the community, be prepared to take an intelligent position in the modern political scene. This means that they should be ready to vote intelligently and furthermore, able to argue and discuss politics intelligently. But the growing complexity of political problems has made such a preparation more and more difficult. It is no longer possible to obtain a grasp of modern conditions by means of the conventional training in the liberal arts. Some specific knowledge of the social sciences...