Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fear exists only in the minds of those who wish us to believe there is an atmosphere of fear. I am convinced that progressive picturemakers, such as Darryl Zanuck and Samuel Goldwyn, will continue to [combine] what they believe to be good picturemaking with courage and a point of view. . . . Here at RKO we are continuing to plan pictures that we hope will be good films and still have something to say. It is my belief there is nothing wrong with the picture business that good pictures won't cure. DORE SCHARY Hollywood, Calif...
However, Wassily W. Leontief, professor of Economics, dissented from his colleagues, guessing that prices might stay down in view of the winter bumper crops...
...taking every opportunity to capitalize on it. Political maneuvering in Congress is to be expected during an election year, but it is highly dangerous to mix politics with the complex problems of national finance. Any tax cut in the near future must be one not made with a view to its vote-getting consequences, and preferably one that would actively encourage savings. A bill that can be a boost to inflation smacks of a frightening irresponsibility in high places...
...suggested as a speaker to the Society by a Boston banker, who quoted a third party as to Hart's qualifications. "His only weakness," said this latter gentleman, "lies in being too zealous in behalf of this Council....which sometimes causes him to take a more extreme view than might be regarded wise." If this chain of events led the Society into an embarrassing situation, it is guilty of becoming naively associated with men whose only apparent objection to Hart's stand is that it is untactfully "extreme." If, on the other hand, the Society was in full control...
Commenting last night, on Donovan's article, Ulric R. Neisser '50, chairman of the Political Action Committee of the HLU and temporary secretary of the nine-man committee directing Sunday's meeting, said that the value of UMT program is "certainly minimal," in view of the importance of atomic war-fare, and characterized it as a "futile, expensive, and dangerous" measure. Neisser revealed that he will send a reply to Donovan, through "Shannonigans" within the next few days...