Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...politicians, some secure for another two years and all free of the pressure of practical politics, can now show some courage and some results. There is nothing to keep them from developing a draft program fast so college students, and especially graduating high school students, can have some idea of how to plan their futures. The Congress must also act quickly on such priority issues as price and rent control legislation, reconstruction aid for the Philippines, Korea, and possibly Yugoslavia. Above all there is a matter of taxes...
Although he was pleased to see the results in Ohio, Dean Mason of the School of Public Administration stated that the general picture "showed a victory for McCarthy around the country." Mason explained that he felt organized labor was growing too strong as a pressure group, and thus wanted to see Taft defeat Ferguson. "I am worried, however," the Dean said, "that the nation's elections will have an adverse effect on our foreign policy...
...Godkin lecture series is administered by the Graduate School of Public Administration and paid for from a fund set up in memory of Edwin L. Godkin, editor of the New York Evening Post and Nation at the turn of the century. According to terms of the gift, the lectures are to be on "The Essentials of Free Government, and Duties of the Citizen...
Adoption of an excess profits tax under present conditions of partial mobilization would be dangerous to the efficiency and growth of our economic system, writes Dan Throop Smith, professor of Finance at the Business School, in the November number of the "Harvard Business Review." "The real loss to the country from the enactment of excess profits taxation," the author believes, "would come from waste and from undeveloped potentialities--potential new companies and potential areas of new development for established companies...
...Voluntary Defenders, a group of Law School students, renders "gratuitous legal aid and assistance to worthy and indigent persons accused of crime...