Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-range planning. . . . We cannot leave the future to take care of itself." Naturally Harvard must be as foresighted as possible, and not mistake the stagnant Forties for the roaring Twenties. But if "long-range planning" as envisaged by Mr. Conant involves any retardation of Harvard's present educational progress, it defeats its own purpose. For the quantity of endowments a university receives depends not only on economic conditions, but also on its educational prestige. Thus any move which compromises Harvard's academic leadership will in the long run tend to make Harvard less attractive to the givers of endowments...
...Broun, his mind is on the masses, his eyes slant to the Left. One measure of his personal leaning toward Marxism is his book The Pressure Boys, about lobbyists (with many a side crack at publishers and advertisers). In his last sentence, summarizing his beliefs, Crawford writes: "No great progress can be made until the hard-pressed middle classes learn that their destiny is bound up with the welfare of fellow workers at the bottom, not the owners at the top. . . ." In spite of his radical opinions, Guildsman Crawford is an organizational conservative, agrees with many a Red-abhorring publisher...
Besides, there is no use taking a defeatist attitude like that of the Republicans when we can make great progress with South American countries towards free trade. Now is our chance to tear down tariff walls and make the Western Hemisphere strong, peaceful, and economically prosperous...
...term basis, for some measure of self-government-with many safeguards for Britain. He made the British Government's historic statement on Indian home rule: "I am authorized on behalf of His Majesty's Government to state clearly . . . that the natural issue of India's constitutional progress is the attainment of dominion status." When he left India the British press almost unanimously acclaimed him as having saved India from a blood bath...
Died. Rufus Cutler Dawes, 72, utilitycoon, brother of former U. S. Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, president of Chicago's 1933-34 world's fair (A Century of Progress); suddenly, of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago...