Word: vitals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gives pause to wonder what sort of criticism these men bring to bear on the Department of Economics. Do they exert what influence they can toward seeing that a more or less cloistered faculty is alive to the vital economic problems of the day? Do they, in their spare moments between testifying before Senate investigating committees and issuing denunciations of the Securities Law, give a thought to the part which Harvard's Economics department ought to play in training the leaders of a new order of society? There is, perhaps, no reason to suppose that the opinions of all these...
...willing to act with the same directness of purpose and energy of method as Mussolini and Hitler have displayed." Predicted Lord Rothermere who has long felt like playing Dictator himself: ''There will be a prolonged swing either to the Right or Left. At the next vital election, Britain's survival as a great power will depend on the existence of a well-organized party of the Right...
...made necessary. The amount of this appropriation would have sufficed to keep the library open during the midyear and the final reading periods. It has been diverted from the general, unrestricted income. It is not a special grant. Does the college prefer military and naval science to a vital scholastic facility...
...quoted remark of Walter Lippmann about a pleasant gentleman who had no important qualifications for the Presidency was not completely wrong then. Presidential treatments of last June's compromise on veteran's cuts and of the abandonment of the tariff agreement bill, as well as the abdication of the vital tax issue on the recovery bill are all glossed over a bit, though not seriously...
...host of vital questions are opened up the moment an "emergency" is justification for the law of a state permitting contracts to be abrogated. As a matter of fact, it would seem probable that the Supreme Court of the United States will uphold the action of the executive branch of the government and the legislative in repudiating the famous gold clause in government securities. The highest court in Great Britain recently refused to permit an "emergency" to be offered as a reason for falling to pay gold contracts in full