Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baseless is the bumptious rumor that Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Wilson) is really Matilda Wutzki, a Russian-born Jewess. Facts are: Frances Perkins is a Protestant Bostonian whose forbears settled in New England before 1680. Her lifelong interest in social welfare led her to Chicago's Hull House, introduced her to her husband, then secretary to New York's reform Mayor John Purroy Mitchel. Neither she nor her husband has ever been a genuine mill worker...
Breakfast in Charleston, S.C. has been for generations a high social rite. At 8:00 one morning last week, custom in Charleston was interrupted. At 8:07 a. m., 31 victims lay dead or dying (including one Arthur Pinckney, Negro, but no others of great name or lineage). Honored walls and lovely trees were down or damaged. To the Bombardments of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the Great Gale of 1804, the Earthquake of 1886, had been added Charleston's Three Tornadoes...
...Last month, Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer of the Social Security Board threatened to cut off Federal contributions to Ohio's 112,000 aged pensioners unless Governor Martin Luther Davey ceased playing politics with the pension rolls. The Governor dared him to. Last week after a hot political word war. Chairman Altmeyer took the dare, cut off $2,576,000 of October payments, sternly warned that Governor Davey must clean up and improve his State's social security administration before November...
...town of Cesky Krumlov were the first Germans to dishonor themselves by opening dastardly fire upon the retreating Czech soldiers' backs. These Sudetens were also the first to smash windows and pillage shops and homes owned by Czechs, Jews and non-Nazi Sudetens such as Communists, Socialists and Social Democrats. Such outrages were not typical but exceptional, according to latest dispatches. The German army entered those parts of Czechoslovakia which it is to take over progressively by October 10 (see p. 75) in the same peaceful fashion as it entered Austria, was cheered last week by civilians...
Vital. "All fine works of art are vital, not with the vitality of topical social problems but with the vitality which seems to make a picture alive. . . ." Thus some-what unnecessarily announcing himself as a non-social painter, Victor de Pauw displayed 30 paintings at the Charles Morgan Gallery. Most were good & alive, though many were over facile. A great source of vitality to Artist de Pauw: circuses, and especially clowns. Unlike his great predecessor in this field, Toulouse-Lautrec (see below), Artist de Pauw composes better than he draws...