Word: mutuality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formed themselves into a society whose purpose was expressed in a preamble: "For God and Country, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution . . . Law and order . . . 100% Americanism . . . Memories . . . Individual obligation to the community . . . Right . . . Peace . . . Justice, freedom and democracy . . . . . Devotion to mutual helpfulness...
Thus was the American Legion founded. In 1920 the Legion first proved the potency of its devotion to "mutual helpfulness" when it got the pensions of disabled veterans upped from $30 to $100 a month. A second proof came in 1924 when it induced Congress to vote a bonus payable in 20 years to some 3,500,000 veterans. In 1931 the Legion was back at the Capitol, demanding and getting, under threat of political reprisals, legislation whereby veterans could borrow 50% of the face value of their bonus certificates. And in 1934 it secured the restoration of a large...
...Methodist Federation for Social Service, a privately-supported semi-official organization in the Church, last year adopted a new slogan: ". . . To abolish the profit system in order to develop a classless society based upon the obligation of mutual service." Vigilantly antiFascist, the Federation gets out a monthly bulletin on "Social Questions" which is widely circulated in Methodist areas. Last month's bulletin contained a survey of the New Deal by Dr. Harry F. Ward, theology professor at Union Theological Seminary. He charged that President Roosevelt's program "tends to lower the American standard of living, creates an artificial...
...James Rowland Angell persuaded him to go to New Haven. Within a year President Angell had made him chairman of the Board of Admissions, full professor, Master of Pierson College. Last week Rochester guessed that Messrs. Angell and Aydelotte had had much to do with the selection of their mutual protege to be, like them, a college president...
Sponsored for the first time by local dealers, the 35th annual New York Automobile Show was, for the first time in years, a dignified affair. The crowd went in larger numbers than ever before. Private hotel shows were banned by mutual agreement. In some 200 forms they saw the burnished, bulbous, gleaming thing of beauty that is a modern...