Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaders of the local defense leagues are spunky housewives, energetic Communists, clergymen with social consciences like Father Groser. Fortnight ago on the 100th anniversary of the great working class Chartist Convention that scared early Victorians silly by demanding such reforms as universal suffrage and annual Parliaments, representatives of the 200,000 members of the booming Federation of Tenants' and Residents' Associations met for its first national convention. Birmingham, scene of a recent victorious strike by 46,000 families living in a municipal tenements, was the convention city...
...arriving in Finland just a few days before the races started, was not dismayed. He had been sailing boats for almost 50 years-had handled almost every type of windjammer from the 15-footers he used to sail off Oyster Bay in his undergraduate Harvard days to the big Class J boats Vanitie and Weetamoe he skippered in the America's Cup trials in 1920 and 1930, after he had married J. P. Morgan's daughter. Once he had gone around the Horn-from New York to Honolulu-in a square rigger...
...Children sleep too much-chiefly because their parents want them out of the way. "The patience, niceness and indeed submissiveness of upper-class mothers to the nurses they employ are really a tacit understanding that they will forgive anything, bear anything, so long as the disturbing child is kept away from his parents and from their possessions." Instead of sleeping in prison-like cribs, children should have free, low beds near the floor...
Last week he came upon something beyond clucking or smiling over-a disturbingly prophetic cartoon. Published in 1919, it showed Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Orlando leaving the Peace Conference, the treaty on the floor, a child labeled "1940 Class" standing with head bowed behind a pillar. Caption: THE TIGER: "Curious! I seem to hear a child weeping...
...feast was given by Gen. Chi Hsieh-yuan last evening at Huai Jen Tang in honor of over 80 Chinese and Japanese newspapermen. Many high class Japanese officers were also invited. Purpose of the feast is: the Provisional Government is going to have an army of 'its own,' so he wants the newsmen to give them encouragement and publicity. The program of feast is like this...