Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since all of these ladies travel in pretty much the same social league, each learned with horror that she was likely to see the dress that she had just paid at least $350 for not once but seven times. To shrill objections over the telephone Mme Schiaparelli last week had nothing whatever to say. Taking advantage of this sudden publicity, however, style pirates in Manhattan's garment centre set to work duplicating the model not seven but 700 times...
When he was an undergraduate at Wisconsin and Chicago Dr. Slichter worked in farm machinery and plumbing supply factories to learn Labor's viewpoint. Today, a member of the staff of Brookings Institution, of the Social Science Research Council, of American Association for Labor Legislation, honorary vice president of the National Consumers League, the professor describes himself as "a Wisconsin liberal-a conservative liberal that does not go off half-cocked." In 1933 he predicted trade unionism would become entrenched throughout U. S. industry as the result of NRA, prophesied a split in Labor's ranks...
...such a "good society," ruled by no personal ruler but by the impersonal necessities of economic markets in which governments take part only by regulating against abuses, Walter Lippmann looks for social progress, "the enlargement of the middle class as against the poor and the rich." To him this is not a pious hope but a sober expectation, for he concludes that the economic law which Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini try to attack and impair will compel men to rediscover and to re-establish the essential principles of a liberal society . . . the renascence of liberalism may be regarded as assured...
...class (1910) that included John Reed, Heywood Broun, Kenneth MacGowan, Robert Edmond Jones, Lippmann worked so hard and well that he finished his course in three years, spent his fourth year as assistant to Philosopher George Santayana. William James thought him a bright boy. But it was a British social philosopher visiting at Harvard, Graham Wallas (author of The Great Society which in title at least was the obvious forerunner of Pundit Lippmann's latest book) who really fired Lippmann's imagination, gave his sprouting career its direction. When Lincoln Steffens, the late great muckraker, went looking...
Beyond dispute, however, is one point about Walter Lippmann's present place in the American scene. His social philosophy, whether or not it be defined as liberal, has been reduced to one major principle: opposition to planned society, collectivism, dictatorship. This leaves unsettled just one important question in regard to Mr. Lippmann, a question which cannot be answered until a more significant judgment has been made: whether the New Deal will be written down in history as social reform or as the Dictatorship of the Forgotten...