Word: thorstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beard resigned from Columbia in protest against the dismissal of two fellow professors for opposing U. S. entry into the War (Beard himself supported the War), later joined John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, James Harvey Robinson in founding The New School for Social Research, for four years headed the New York Bureau of Municipal Research. A belligerent champion of civil liberties and academic freedom, Beard was a scorching critic of post-War red-hunting. When, in 1933, Missouri Pacific Railroad went bankrupt, Beard, a small bondholder, heard that the House of Morgan was withholding interest pending a court order. "Preposterous," Beard...
Some days ago The Harvard Progressive published the second of two articles by "Karblen Bunde" (Karl Marx, Thorstein Bunde Veblen) in criticism of the teaching of specified undergraduate courses in economics...
More aggressive, wittier and compact is 42-year-old Lancelot Hogben (Mathematics for the Million), an English biologist who calls himself a "scientific humanist" and is a kind of English version of iconoclastic Thorstein Veblen. Writers and statesmen he attacks for their ignorance of science, scientists for their ignorance of social matters. In addition he attacks Marxists, liberals, classical scholarship, "sentimental internationalists," theology, economists, and educators who permit children to study what they like rather than what is good for them (science). On the constructive side, he advocates biotechnology as a way to make nations self-sufficient, thermodynamics...
Unselective, poorly organized, overloaded with names and figures, America's 60 Families is good muckraking. Lundberg's collection of "conspicuous wastes" would have warmed the heart of the late Thorstein Veblen (Theory of the Leisure Class). He managed, for instance, to "isolate 723 bathrooms in the various Du Pont establishments, at which point, with much ground remaining to be covered, the quest was regretfully terminated...
Carleton's President Cowling, a bouncing Yaleman who in 28 years has transformed a small Congregationalist school (alma mater of Pierce Butler and the late Economist Thorstein Veblen) into a prosperous, top-ranking college, should have no trouble recruiting two facultymen of suitable calibre. A perambulating president who likes the world better than his Northfield office, Carleton's Cowling has six onetime college presidents on his faculty, a high-powered board of trustees including, besides Lawyer Kellogg, Lumberman Frederic Somers Bell and Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo...