Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professors of the "dismal science" have always scotched this sunny Stevenson couplet. To such economists as Thomas Robert Malthus and John Stuart Mill in the 19th Century and John Maynard Keynes in the 20th, the world did not seem so full. Any economic system, said the Mill school, would either become static or it would fail to provide for its own. Lesser Cassandras, including New Dealers, have foretold the depletion of the world's oil and coal reserves, the exhaustion of soils, have pronounced the U.S. economy to be "mature," i.e., incapable of further expansion. Most of these experts...
...London, Novelist Graham (The Heart of the Matter) Greene was working on the biography of a distant relative named Robert Louis (Treasure Island) Stevenson...
Last week Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson signed a bill permitting night thoroughbred races in his state. Owners of thoroughbred stables threw up their hands in horror, and none of the Chicago tracks made any immediate move to take advantage of the bill. Even the small track owners, strongest supporters of the legislation, weren't turning on the lights just yet. Explained Ray Bennigsen of Illinois' Hawthorne and Sportsman's Park: "The bill, I believe, was put through as a surety measure in view of the decline in betting on the thoroughbreds at all Chicago tracks this...
...Adlai Stevenson...
Still robed in his prestige, little Justice Frankfurter left the stand-to be followed by egg-bald Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed, under whom Hiss had served when Reed was solicitor general. Like Frankfurter-and like Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson and Ambassador-at-large Philip Jessup, both of whom testified by written deposition-Reed agreed that Alger Hiss was a man of "loyalty, integrity and veracity...