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...Taft-Hartley Act and reinstated the Wagner Act with a few minor changes. Republicans in committee had tried to offer some amendments, but Thomas' Democratic majority had turned down every one, reporting the bill out on a straight 8-to-5 party vote. Vermont's mild George Aiken commented bitterly: "Might makes right." To Ohio's Robert A. Taft it was "the most highhanded" committee procedure he had ever seen...
...Lecture Hall was filled again last night as the Harvard Law School Forum presented the second symposium of its five day series. Members of the four man panel were Henry Aiken, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Wassily Leontief, Professor of Economics, Pitirim Sorokiu, Professor of Sociology, and Professor George De Santillana...
...Aiken, prefacing his talk with the observation that Marx was "the most unpopular social scientist," said that his "liberalism" was at present dying of its own complacency and smugness. Common understanding does not lead to common appreciation, he stated...
...Aiken concluded that "it our society continues to spread enlightment it will enable us to get out of this power mess. It therefore behooves us to acquire power to make our ideals live...
Pitrim Sorokin, professor of Sociology and director of Harvard's "anti-selfishness" research center, George de Santillana, professor of English and History at MIT and an expert on cybernetics, a system that proposes to make greater control of physical mechanisms by man possible, and Henry Aiken, professor of Philosophy will discuss the relation of the Social Sciences to values for the modern man, tomorrow...