Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Folks. The political failure of Social Security is that after more than three years of the Act designed to eliminate the insecurity of the aged, insecure oldsters are still making and breaking politicians, still rank as a prime U. S. political problem. By & large another provision of the Act, its program of unemployment insurance, has functioned to the satisfaction of participants who have drawn out $400,000,000 in unemployment benefits since the program started operation. But for old folks, Social Security, which will not begin paying monthly old-age insurance benefits for those over 65 until 1942, is still...
Making and keeping the world Christian was once largely the job of priests. In the past century the Roman Catholic Church, for one, came to realize that these shock troops were not enough. Since Pius IX (1846-78), all the Popes have urged the rank & file of Catholics to the front lines-through Catholic Action, defined as "lay participation in the apostolate of the hierarchy." Last week the Church's outstanding lay expert on Catholic Action, Paul McGuire of Adelaide, Australia, was in the U. S. on a coast-to-coast lecture tour, to expound the lay apostolate under...
From once-famed University of Berlin came news last week of the recent dedication of a new "anti-Semite department," named for Nazi Germany's front-rank anti-Semite, Julius Streicher. Present to open the first university course in Jew-baiting was Namesake Streicher himself. "Professor" Streicher, wearing puttees and carrying a riding crop, delivered a two-and-one-half-hour lecture on "Science and Jews." Keynote: "Any concept of history that records a Jew as a learned man or genius is false...
...week Professor Thurlow Christian Nelson, head of Rutgers University's zoology department, bluntly told New York and New Jersey health officials that the Greater New York area "has probably the highest incidence of trichinosis in hogs and in humans to be found anywhere in the world." Next in rank are Boston and San Francisco. Many of the cases are caused by consumption of improperly cooked frankfurters and hamburgers which are made of mixed pork and beef, said Dr. Nelson. "The average 'hot dog,' " he explained, "is barely warmed through before being slapped into its mustard bath...
Holmes deplored the use of political influence to obtain teaching positions in public schools, and declared that if the superficial requirements for teachers were to be changed, then "institutions of university rank must lead the way in a very different and much more radical attack on the direct preparation of teachers for their immediate tasks in the classroom...