Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stoddard's conclusions threw other psychologists into a dither. Humphed one: "If what you say is true, an intelligent man and wife should adopt children instead of having their own." Retorted Dr. Stoddard: "Their chances of getting bright kids would be just about as good...
...convention opened, bald, husky Dr. Stoddard rose to report. He twinkled: "Only a confirmed Pollyanna would say that, as a committee, we have performed our task in a spirit of loving kindness. ..." Listeners looked at each other, wondered when the fireworks would start. They never did start. Long before the end it had dawned on the delegates that there would be no debate, because no one cared to get up and contend that nurture had nothing to do with intelligence. Said the final speaker, University of Chicago's Sociologist Ernest Watson Burgess: "[The] consensus [is] that intelligence, at least...
...confusions and illegalities of this pseudo-ambassadorial appointment: let the President call Mr. Taylor home. If that would be too embarrassing, let him cancel whatever credentials have been delivered through the State Department and give him a letter of introduction which shall in substance say: The bearer is my friend, Mr. Myron Taylor, an eminent and respected private American citizen. Any courtesies extended to him and especially any information that may be conveyed through him regarding plans for peace will be appreciated by the undersigned...
...dollar measure, no arm of the Federal Government has so loud a say in so big a slice of U. S. business as the New Deal's Securities and Exchange Commission. Six different Acts of Congress give it power. Under the first (Securities Act of 1933) it has in six years passed on the registration statements of over 2,500 corporations issuing $15,591,262,000 of new securities. Under the second (Securities Exchange Act of 1934) it daily watches fluctuations in about $150,000,000,000 worth of stocks and bonds listed on 20 U. S. exchanges...
...three-word sketch of Jerome Frank. Too busy to think of haircuts, he often lets his greying mane hide his ears. Subtle, learned, mentally insatiable, he combs arcane source books for cosmic ideas, wholesales them in brilliant conversation to friends. At Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy the partners used to say: "It's worth $50,000 a year to us to have Jerry around just to hear him talk." In 1938, in a speech in Kansas City, he denounced fixed charges in favor of equity dividends. To make his point he invoked the following authorities: Aristotle, Lactantius, St. Luke, St. Basil...