Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work of the Dies Committee and my work in connection with it. You state among other things- "Unhappy Mr Voorhis, knowing not what he had done, had already voted to publish the names, addresses titles and salaries of 528 Federal employes' 30 District of Columbia schoolteachers, nurses' social workers...
...Dutch colonial atmosphere has long been widely hailed as far healthier than the British, but this reputation rests more on circumstance than on conscious planning. Unlike the British, early Dutch colonizers were not discouraged from marrying native women and no social ostracism came to them or their half-caste children. Moreover, the Dutch have scrupulously refused to allow the slightest tampering with the natives' moral code, even going so far as to bar missionaries in some islands. But the native living standard is little, if any, higher than in similar British colonies. If the Dutch have experienced fewer revolts...
...breaking up through the war a number of artificial forms of organization and social tendencies which, if left undisturbed, would either destroy man or hinder the achievement of his full growth. A social worker is reported to have said before the war came that if, as she understood, the effect of a war would be to destroy half of London, including its slums, and scatter its population over the country, it might not be a wholly bad thing. . . . God is ... putting to us a searching question. Money can be found in any quantities to discharge shells gratis to the enemy...
Harvard and Yale are in hearty agreement that intellectual freedom is, or should be, the greatest blessing of a university. To hear these ancient foes singing a harmonious duct of such social significance is comforting today when their football rivalry is waxing warm. But there is more than one fly in the ointment. John and the Bulldog may nod solemnly together over such a book as mill's "On Liberty," but we were afraid they would get into the very devil of a fight over Emily Post's "Etiquette." It seems that as regards a man named Browder, John...
...trifle lower on the social scale, but recommended, depending on your date...