Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Aviation in the U. S. has been stagnating for two years. We are all copying. Aviation has shown no progress . . . comparable to that made in radio and talking pictures. Think how many copies have been made of the plane Col. Lindbergh used on his flight across the Atlantic . . . of other famous planes. None of us are building the plane that the public wants to buy, and that proves we are standing still." No mere disturber, no second-rate competitor disgruntled over his own failures uttered those words last week at Langley Field. Va. It was William Bushnell Stout, vice president...
...world's biggest bankstock holding company), upon arriving last week at the age of 60, resigned from all his far-flung enterprises. Testifying before the House Banking & Currency Committee, said he: "Branch banking is coming and you can't stop it. You can't block economic progress. You're against a stone wall. Small communities are drying up. They don't need small unit banks. Farmers drive over paved roads to the larger cities to do their banking. . . . Why in the world can't we have nation-wide branch banking? If you have nation...
...altogether fitting that the new Harvard of the House Plan should bear the impress of the best in Harvard's past. Dunster, Lowell, and now Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, John Winthrop, and Adams are names rich in Harvard tradition and outstanding in Harvard progress. That the seven projected Houses should commemorate them for future generations of Harvard men is both an honor to the men who made famous their names and an augury for the happy outcome of the House Plan experiment...
...meet. Thirty years ago the Junior League and the 20th Century were born. . . . The time has come. . . . The youth of America should lead the advance guard of an international movement endorsing general disarmament. . . . The ideals which have inspired the Junior League to a steady onward march of evolution and progress are an example to the world of the dynamic power of fearlessness, of goodwill, and of faith in mankind...
...Millville, N. J., last week, the School Board, in star-chamber session, was told by an irate father of going to a teacher's house with his wife to talk about their son's progress in school: "There she sat in pajamas, puffing away at a cigaret. I asked her how the boy was making out in study and she took another inhale and asked me if he hadn't shown me his report. I told her I had seen it, and that was the reason I came to her. Then she calmly told me that...