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Under direction of Lamont University Professor Sumner H. Slichter, the course centers around seminars and classes conducted by Benjamin M. Selekman, Kirstein Professor of Labor Relations; John Dunlop, associate professor of Economics; and others. Included are numerous luncheon and dinner meetings, at which prominent labor and management leaders speak. Each Fellow also submits an extended report on a problem of union policy, on which he has done research while in the course...
Despite the fact that he could hand-pick his subordinates, Spruille Braden faced a dilemma. Last week an old hand at Latin American affairs put his finger on it. Wrote onetime Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles in his New York Herald Tribune column: "For over two years I have warned that the policy of the Department of State would arouse popular support for the military leaders and weaken [Argentina's] liberal and democratic forces. [This policy] helped to bring about [Peron's] triumph...
Speakers listed in the Forum's prospectus are Lee Pressman, Senator Burton Hickenlooper, Roland Young, Thomas Finletter, Senator Edwin Johnson, FTC Chairman Judge Elwin Davis, Thurman Arnold, and others including Harvard Professors Sumner Slichter, Alvin Hansen, Roscoe Pound, Arthur N. Holcombe, Edward S. Mason, and C. Crane Brinton...
Professor Karpovich served during the March, 1917, revolution in Russia under the Menshevik regime before the more radical Bolsheviks took control in the November revolution. Professor McKay, in coordination with Sumner Welles '14, has arranged for the publication of a number of books on international politics...
...more of Brazil than had any U.S. Ambassador, worked energetically for planned Brazilian economic development, watched the critical transition from Vargas-bossed to popularly elected government. His crucially timed speech at Petropolis last September, delivered on State Department instructions, helped hold the line for free presidential elections. But Sumner Welles in the U.S. and Vargas supporters in Brazil denounced the speech as intervention, loosed a fierce attack that probably made old New Dealer Berle look forward happily to resuming his Columbia University law professorship. Mentioned as his successor: Career Man R. Henry Norweb, present U.S. Ambassador to Cuba...