Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bailey Hall in Ithaca, N. Y., Sociologist Edmund Ezra Day, 53, was installed as fifth president of Cornell University, proceeded to denounce "armed, aggressive and arrogant" force abroad, to issue this defiance: "When men in power conclude that ideas should come from authority and not from thought, men of reason must give battle...
...light summer reading was the 450,000-word document which President Roosevelt took with him last fortnight on his weekend cruise down the Potomac. The bulky treatise was entitled Technological Trends and National Policy, Including the Social Implications of New Inventions. Under the direction of lean-jawed Sociologist William Fielding Ogburn of the University of Chicago, the report had been prepared by a subcommittee of the science committee of the National Resources Committee. Last week with considerable fanfare and President Roosevelt's blessing it was made public...
...Kopetzky-Lape program embodied so much prudent common sense that for two days and a night some of the hardest heads in the U. S. wrangled. What would doctors get out of this? What their patients? Who would run U. S. medicine? A sentimental sociologist like Secretary of Labor Perkins or a political Relief Administrator like Mr. Hopkins? Or a doctor like Surgeon General Parran? Or a medical oligarchy like the A. M. A.'s Secretary-General Manager Olin West, Lobbyist William Creighton Woodward and Editor Morris Fishbein...
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS (3 Vols.)-Pitirim A. Sorokin - American Book ($15). Herculean survey of world cultural changes in the last 2,500 years. An attempt by a Harvard sociologist, supported by data of 20 U. S. and European researchers, to invalidate and replace the revolutionary theories of Karl Marx, Spengler's gloomy outlook for Western civilization...
...James Oliver Curwood is the character of the sturdy civilian overseer who sympathizes with the newcomers but scorns them as failures, thinks them something of a blight on the rugged country he loves. Inspired by a blonde who acts like an amalgam of Joan of Arc and a visiting sociologist, the men "come to their senses" when their children fall sick by the dozen. They put up a hospital in 24 hours (offstage). The overseer changes his mind about having them sent back, sits down to talk over development plans. Near the final curtain, inevitably, a colonist rushes onstage...