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Both Paul J. Tillich, University Professor, and Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellowships, were among the 16 persons who chose Adlai Stevenson as the ideal President. It was the largest backing for one person...
...times this position seemed risky; often it was nearly untenable. But Lowell always maintained it, and especially so after 1919 when he published his now-classic interpretation of academic freedom. In the middle of the Boston police strike of that year, Harold J. Laski, a young government instructor at the University, became somewhat carried away with his own enthusiasm in addressing the striking policemen's wives. Exuberantly, Laski praised the uprising as an example of pluralistic liberty in the finest tradition...
Meeting in Manhattan last week, 2,000 delegates to the 64th Congress of the National Association of Manufacturers were fully prepared, as usual, for a series of speeches attacking high taxes. At the opening session they were jarred out of position by IBM President Thomas J. Watson Jr. He told them flatly that high taxes are essential in the struggle with Russia for world leadership...
...MILLION STOCKHOLDERS in U.S. businesses are predicted for 1970 by J. Wilson Newman, president of Dun & Bradstreet, compared to 12.5 million stockholders at present...
...Russian economy growing faster than the U.S.'s? Budget Director Maurice Stans last week decried the "cult of growth," which would spur federal spending, unbalance the budget, and touch off another burst of inflation. But International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson Jr. called for new federal taxation, if necessary, to combat Russian expansion (see State of Business...