Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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CRIME AND DESTINY-Johannes Lange -Paper Books (50?). Which is more important, heredity or environment? Johannes Lange is a German and therefore methodical. He is a criminologist and therefore curious about human behavior. Lange had heard many an argument about heredity v. environment, knew that Sir Francis Gallon in 1876 had tried to show heredity prevails, by examining the histories of twins. Skeptical of Galton's extremist conclusions, Herr Professor Lange decided to adopt Galton's method but without preconceived ideas. With painstaking cunning he set about gathering data on twins one or both of whom...
...circulation of French banknotes backed by this gold also enlarged to the maximum volume for all time: 75,950,000,000 francs. With France and the U. S. continuing their joint dominance of three-fifths of the world's monetary gold, attention riveted upon the strange aquatic behavior of Governor Montagu Collett Norman of the Bank of England. Mr. Norman (with his valet) and the Bank of England's recently acquired U. S. Economist Oliver Sprague (with his valet) boarded at Southampton the S. S. Bremen bound for New York. Already aboard was Governor George L. Harrison...
Improperly nourished . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000,000 Defective speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000,000 Weak or damaged hearts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000,000 Behavior problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675,000 Mentally retarded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450,000 Tubercular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382,000 Impaired hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342,000 Totally deaf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,000 Crippled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300,000 Partially blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000 Wholly blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,000 Delinquent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200,000 Dependent...
...week's concert again suggested that lonely individuals make the greatest music. The Orchestra played the Bach-Beethoven-Brahms program as if completely bewitched by the slight, grey-haired figure, swaying constantly, sometimes singing along in a thin, croaking voice. The smart audience was also hypnotized into perfect behavior. It arrived punctually, never once applauded at the wrong time, saved its coughs for intermissions. After the con cert there gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire...
...plump, glossy-haired Robert Hendry Lucas, who was brought in in August from the Bureau of Internal Revenue to be national executive director. While Chairman Raskob lay low?except to provide money and to answer "Libelous!" last week to an attack on his personal financial behavior during and since the 1929 stock crash?the actual work of the Democrats was done by Jouett Shouse, 51, the horse-faced, horse-minded, Kentucky-born Kansas City lawyer who was called in to be national executive committee chairman...