Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem of the American newspaper today is to open its channels of cordial reception to new social ideals and to insure fair treatment for any reform or any reformer who is obviously honest, reasonably intelligent and backed by any considerable minority of the public. How can this be done? How can the newspapers become open-minded? I don't know. They might try to hire as doorkeepers in the house of the Lord on copy desks and in editorial chairs men who are free to make decisions . . . not controlled by an itch to move to the next higher desk...
...moment where laws can be enforced to control the movement. The technique of the sit-down strikers is identical with that of the syndicalists of Europe. France has finally had to take a stand against them because of the dangers as a political club rather than a social defensive weapon. I feel confident that the U. S. will eventually take the same stand. . . ." Then it was time for an Administration spokesman to present its side of the argument. The job fell to genial Jesse Jones, whose practical handling of RFC has made him more palatable to Big Business than...
...Porte, Ind., a young woman clerk in the State employment office impatiently insisted that a young male applicant show his social security number. The applicant peeled jacket, undid shirt, showed her the number tattooed across his chest...
...Confucius was not the official perfectionist version of China's greatest historical figure. He became a convert because Confucius seemed the perfect personification of the Golden Mean-a moralist without asceticism, a reformer without fanaticism, a conservative without bigotry, a scholar without pedantry, a rugged individualist with a social conscience-but for all that, a man with such human foibles as touchiness and misogyny...
...story of two fathers, lifelong friends, and their sons, it differs from most British family novels in one main respect. Instead of portraying the conflict of old and new social forces, it poses a more strictly moral theme: the evil consequences of parents trying to realize their unfulfilled ambitions in their sons. The worse example of deluded fatherhood is William Essex (narrator of the story), who rises from the Manchester slums to fame as a novelist, determines that his only son, Oliver, shall have all the advantages he missed. His friend, Dermot O'Riorden, dedicates his son Rory...