Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cause of liberalism. But the significant point here is not Mr. Smith's lack of liberalism; it is his unfamiliarity with a few large landmarks in American constitutional law. The provisions which he suggests are the conventional child labor provisions, sponsored by agitators since the dawn of the twentieth contury, and effectively caught in the impasse of Hammer V. Dagenhart. The supreme court there decided that the interstate commerce regulation of the federal government could not operate against any product on the basis of its antecedent conditions of manufacture. So far as the court is concerned, neither the interstate commerce...
This modern miracle play is the conversion of a sensitive middle-aged man John Loving, back to the Catholic form of Christianity through a perfect marriage. John is one of the "modern temper" group of twentieth century intellectuals who has run the gamut of atheism, socialism, and Bolshevism. That love and marriage had been abolished in the latter state and that schoolboys were throwing spitballs at Almighty God delighted this iconoclast. But it is the religion of love as symbolized and poetized in Christian dogma that brings him to conversion. Religion supplied the necessary ideal meaning of his earthly...
...Distribution of Goods under the Recovery Act" was discussed Tuesday evening by Howard T. Lewis, professor of Marketing, in the seventh informal radio program of "Twentieth Century Ideas." This series, which is broadcast Tuesday evenings at 8.45 o'clock over WBZ, features brief talks by Harvard professors. The programs, given weekly at the invitation of the National Broadcasting Company, are under the direction of Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology...
...author as ministers to his Dionysian joy were nineteenth century vintages, and have long since fulfilled their noble destiny. But some will derive comfort from the opinion that "Gin. . . is a very excellent, most wholecome, and, at its best, most palatable drink"; others from the realization that the twentieth century has had its good wine years, that Saintsbury learned by experiment, that there is as much ahead as in the past. Comfort will be derived, too, from the sparkle and rest radiating from every word of a man who had reached the age of 74 on a constant diet...
...Council will organize the courses in the Twentieth Century Adult Education Center of which Professor Mather is the president and which is supported by many professors at Harvard. Among those lecturing at the Center are Professor Mather; Edward Ballantine '07, associate professor of Music; Loring B. Andrews, instructor of Astronomy; Albert H. Cantril, instructor of Psychology; Robert K. Lamb '28, instructor in Economics; and David W. Prall, associate professor of Philosophy...