Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been law professor at Cornell, Stanford, Chicago, Oklahoma, Ohio State, West Virginia and Pittsburgh universities. No recluse, he served in Pittsburgh on an NRA regional labor board, a special committee to arbitrate a streetcar strike, a Governor's commission on special policing in industry, a federation of social agencies, a housing association. For fun he leads an orchestra composed of his three sons and two daughters, plays tennis with his sons and baseball with the NLRB employes team, digs in his garden...
Practical instruction in the use of Harvard libraries will be offered next fall in a series of weekly lectures and conference groups given by The Harvard Guardian, first college magazine of the social sciences...
Following its policy of making available to students information on social, political, and economic topics, the Guardian has designed this course not only to meet the needs of incoming Freshmen, but to solve the library problems of all undergraduate and graduate students who make extensive use of reference material, especially in the fields of History, Government, and Economics, where sources are so numerous and difficult to reach, being distributed between several reading rooms and the Widener stacks...
Hollywood seldom attempts social drama, especially when that drama has to do with the raw meat of contemporary mass action; there is no reason why this picture should have stumbled into the things it does. John Meade, tycoon extraordinary, plays with natural resources as he does with the little country lass's heart--he is frank in his admission that his work is swindle by business technique, and he scorns to replant forests he devastates. When he shifts from lumber to wheat, he runs against a dust storm, the governor of the state who reminds him of his responsibility...
...handling of the sharp social problems involved is tentative, confused and utterly inconclusive; the producers merely give you the works, and let it go at that. There are some good shots, some good speeches, some feeling of social movement, but on the whole, the reflection is blurred. This, however, is not the point; "John Meade's Woman" is not a good picture in itself, but it does show the beginning of an awareness for a new type of material, and as such it is an omen...