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2 unusual facts about Harold Laski


Bernard Zylstra

Zylstra's dissertation was on the political theory of Harold Laski.

Purushottam Mavalankar

Purushottam Ganesh Mavalankar (Anna Saheb) studied under the tutelage of Harold Laski in England and was the founder of the Harold Laski Institute of Political Science in Ahmedabad in 1954.


Cass Canfield

He held various executive positions with Harper's in London and New York between then and 1931; among the writers who he signed to Harper's contracts were James Thurber, E. B. White, J. B. Priestley, Harold Laski, John Gunther, and Julian Huxley.

Dignity in Dying

Early supporters included Henry Havelock Ellis, Vera Brittain, Cicely Hamilton, Laurence Housman, H. G. Wells, Harold Laski, George Bernard Shaw, Eleanor Rathbone MP, G. M. Trevelyan, W. Arbuthnot Lane, and a variety of peers including Lord Woolton of Liverpool (Conservative) and Lord Moynihan who had been the President of the Royal College of Surgeons.

The Open Society and Its Enemies

Among them were Ernst Gombrich (entrusted with the main task of finding a publisher), Friedrich Hayek (who wanted to get Popper to the London School of Economics and thus was enthused by Popper's turn to social philosophy), Lionel Robbins, Harold Laski (both of whom reviewed the manuscript), and J.N. Findlay.


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