Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Permit me to thank you for the very decent and extraordinarily honest treatment thus far of my newspapers and myself by your magazine. It is indeed a wonderful thing to see a magazine take such an impartial and straight viewpoint, allowing freedom and fairness to both sides of the question...
...matter of limitation of land armament appears to lie in the conclusion of regional agreements rather than in an effort to work out a general plan for limitation applicable to the whole world." (Obviously this lines up the U. S. with the British rather than the Latin viewpoint, and recalls the "Geneva Protocol" (TIME, Oct. 13, 1924, et seq.) by which the Latin nations hoped to "put teeth into the League." Britain, aware that the U. S. possesses an antipathy to joining a league whose "teeth" might become U. S. soldiers, sidetracked the Protocol, for which was substituted the "regional...
...flurry left President Nash unmoved. Indeed he remarked publicly some time ago that in his opinion the people who were fixing the value of Nash stock on the Stock Exchange had put the price above the value. This was not cynicism or bad business; it was simply the viewpoint of a producer. Until 1891 he was a farmer and he knows that it takes time to grow a good crop. After that he became a carriage trimmer and later began to apply his crop-growing abilities to motor firms. By 1910 he was President of the Buick Motor...
...Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde is probably the least played of all the important dramatists* of the '90s. It is believed by shrewd financiers of the theatre that epigrams will not keep. These men are right, as usual, from a financial viewpoint. It is doubtful whether the engaging and lancelike humors of this piece will interest a great many people for a protracted period. On the other hand, the production seems one of the very few this season that the true lover of the theatre cannot afford to miss...
...faculty has, however, a saner appreciation of the question from a Harvard viewpoint since they have, for the most part, been members of the community for some time That they too see in moderation the best policy rather establishes the fact that those who are longest possessed of Harvard atmosphere find in the present state of things little to be commended...