Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have no more love than before for capitalist democracy. They have faced the facts that: 1) U. S. people do not now want a socialized order, 2) the Party needs democracy as an ally against fascism. As Comrade Browder put it in 1936: "A consistent struggle for democracy and progress leads inevitably, and in the not distant future to the socialist revolution...
Following week Sherman Minton undertook another form of press-baiting. To appear before his lobby committee, he summoned Maurice Vallee Reynolds, publisher of Rural Progress, a farm monthly edited by Glenn Frank, chairman of the Republican Party's Program Committee. Based on the throw-away theory that the meagre income from cheap paid circulation is not worth the money and effort involved in getting it, the 20-odd-page, tabloid-size Rural Progress is mailed free to some 2,000,000 country homes in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Theoretically it depends for its income...
Several courses were suggested as especially good, however. Sociology 3, a first half-year course on the theories of social progress, will not be given in 1938-39, but the material should be covered by every concentrator, either in this course, which will be given the following year, or the more specialized Course 1. It is recommended for History or Economics concentrators. The important material is in Zimmerman's lectures, which are sometimes hard to follow, but the reading is also interesting...
...upholding the verdict in the "Salem birth control case," the Massachusetts Supreme Court yesterday threw an effective obstacle in the path of social progress. Basing its brief on a fact of dubious relevancy--"that the moral and social wrongs arising from the prevention of conception appeared . . . threatening in 1879"--the Court showed a deliberate unwillingness to interpret the law in the light of modern needs. The decision was a great deal more concerned with the "sexual immorality" it hoped to prevent, than with the appalling human misery it was perpetuating. Until knowledge long in possession of the rich is made...
Citing the increased membership, especially in the Freshman class, Robert E. Lane '39, president of the H. S. U., pointed out the progress of the Student Union and its accomplishments during the year...