Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SNAKE IN THE GRASS- James Howard Wellard-Dodd, Mead ($2). The violent death of a gentleman, traveling on an alias during an extramarital holiday in a fashionable Southern hotel, greatly excites an inquisitive sociologist with a detecting bee and a great number of odd "contacts" in quite unscholarly circles. A profusion of red herrings delays the action slightly, but the learned sleuth's highly individual methods offset minor defects...
Badman Bogart has been cashiered from the U.S. Army for theft. But it soon becomes apparent that this was merely a ruse to put him to work in Army Intelligence. His quarry is Sociologist Greenstreet, brain of a Japanese plot to bomb the Panama Canal. At Colon, nerveless Hero Bogart busts the plot, shoots down the Japanese bomber with a captured machine gun, and all ends gruesomely...
...knew him well were sure he would not have taken the job without an understanding with his Commander in Chief that he was to be no mere military adviser. And his appointment would immediately have one important effect: the services would hear less of military strategy from Sociologist Harry Hopkins...
...talked like a farmer, waved his long arms in sweeping gestures at a group of pedagogues in Chapel Hill, N.C. last week. They had come from all over the South to survey the South's next decade with the speaker, the University of North Carolina's famed Sociologist Howard Washington Odum. Surrounded by charts, maps and graphs representing mountains of facts collected by himself, Dr. Odum exhorted the teachers to make their schools centers of research in local problems, put their students to work, community by community, on the enrichment of the South...
When Georgia-born Sociologist Odum began collecting facts at North Carolina 22 years ago, many Southerners took umbrage at any suggestion for improvement of the South's backward economy. Dr. Odum made no suggestions; he just went on laboriously piling up his facts. He turned up some whopping ones: e.g., with much of the richest soil in the U.S., the Southeast spent 7% of its gross income for commercial fertilizer, almost as much as it spent on education (it bought two-thirds of all the fertilizer used in the nation). Reason: its cash-crop, soil-consuming system (cotton...