Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the increasingly social beaver appeared in court, defendant in a complaint brought by Connecticut's Highway Department that a dam was creating a flood danger. Connecticut's Attorney General Pallotti ruled that the dam might legally be destroyed, summarily summed up: "In the case of rational animals we know that the individuals' rights are inferior to those of the State. Following this rule, we must conclude that these animals, being irrational, must also give way to the rights of the State. However, as in the case of human beings, where just compensation is provided...
Enough Flexibility. Although no two experts could wholly agree on detailed programs, no observer could doubt that ten years of depression had given the U. S. the greatest sociological education in its history. Incorporated into its Government were basic social laws no one of which could have been calmly argued or dreamed of by the dejected empiricists of 1929. Incorporated into its thought was an acceptance of social reform, no matter how hotly disputed were particular reform measures. Accepted by its major parties were the basic evolutionary changes represented by social security laws, trade union legislation, relief, social welfare-although...
...double bill that harps a little too consistently on its tune of social significance still makes claims to being good entertainment. The combining of "Our Leading Citizen" and "These Glamour Girls" was unfortunate, but both pictures have many points that recommend them. In the main feature, Bob Burns gives a healthy demonstration of tolerance as a philosophy of life. His portrayal is of a homely lawyer who patterns his ideals after those of Lincoln. In fact, a bust of Lincoln reigns over his office desk. None of the acting in the picture is exceptional, and none of the parts...
...Grant Study in Social Adjustments, Harvard's unique research project for "analyzing the forces that produce normal young man," will this year delve deep into the lives of 100 undergraduates, mostly Sophomores, Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, announced yesterday...
...research project, according to Dr. Bock, is "to build a body of data which will be useful in solving some of the current problems of social adjustment, employing for the most part existing and generally accepted anthropological, physiological, medical, and Psychological methods...