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Show 39 the'new facts engineering ... the book presents unsupported, journa1- mere isti"c pleading," and further, "inadequate journalistic pleading" MacLeish went on say that to their that lying or, alternatively, eers and others had done. just a they There of use figures unaware were nothing was was either out-and-out of what work the new, that.58 at certainly no engin- research; new figures available through the government printing rehash of old office. Technocracy, as head1inecatching item, lost ground during January a of the ,1933, that is, until the break-up versity was just not the articles , This January 24. on the serious were Others Jokes cartoons made, with The a attempts were minor drawn, short Several era1 theme. say that to fever-pitched ,interest problems posed. were is not original there at was Columbia Uni- no interest; of the month before. with the intellectual to grips satires on the technocratic appeared jargon. created around this in the it of Many come to advertisements stories group gen- popular magazines along books.59 few Growing Controversy It tended other people concerned the Technocrats took themselves clear that is over to do Those likewise. the ramifications of Scott's Scott attracted he went, spoke with the enthusia.sm of and 58Op. 59John York: cit., pp. a in proposals large following, depression. a engaged man seriously and in- the debate we.r'e which might cure the drew headlines wherever who knew what he was 373-4. Lardner and Thomas of Robert M. Sugre, The McBride & Crowning of Technocracy (New 1933); also Harold Loeb Co., Laboratory, (who later went on with is own technocratic plans), Life in a Technocracy Lardner's book was a satire on The Viking Press, 1933). (New York: Technocracy, while that of Loeb was a serious attempt to indicate how life, indeed, might be in a Technate. |
