Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...said: "Congress is always ten years behind public opinion." Yet nothing can be done about anything in this country before public attention is focused upon Congress to make it become selfconscious. . . . If the above aphorism is still accurate, you may have five or six more opportunities to chart the progress of the "Groundswell" as new Congresses are elected. That you will maintain your long, efficient view of Prohibition and other national problems is the confident trust and comfort of this well-satisfied subscriber...
...nearest the President came to answering Democrats who twit him on the slump was when he said: "There are . . . several folks in the political world who resent the notion that things will ever get better and who wish to enjoy our temporary misery. To recount to these persons the progress . . . in amelioration . . . to mention that we are suffering far less than other countries, only inspires the unkind retort that we should fix our gaze solely upon the unhappy features of the decline...
...there erecting for the account of the Soviet Government an automobile plant which they will own and manage. We are training men for them in our factories; we are turning over to them all our blueprints and plans and are undertaking to keep them informed of our technical progress. All this we are doing at cost. If we were simply selling our product we could do so at considerably less trouble than this, but we think that Russia needs modern industry and more particularly the automotive industry in order that the wealth of the country may be opened up. Otherwise...
Rehearsals in preparation for this concert have been in progress since September 26, when the score and parts of the composition, the words for which were written by Robert Hillyer, were finished. The singers who will perform in this offering are nearly all members of last year's chorus. While the veterans have been engaged in preparing for this presentation, which is unusually early in the season, the new members have been rehearsing the program for the regular school and local concerts. In addition to these latter appearances it is expected that the combined choruses of Harvard and Radcliffe will...
...past the Social Ethics department has been a neglected makeshift composed of men from various allied fields without unity or central control. This lack of definite leadership has retarded progress, and crippled research. A few years ago some attempt was made to simplify this cumbrous arrangement by the introduction of the tutorial system, but even this failed to stimulate any original thought in the unwieldy organization...