Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles, Mr. & Mrs. Jack Ewins announced the birth of a daughter-"Another Social Security Prospect (Class of 2002 A.D.)"-on printed postcards which recorded...
...Treasury was James Madison's Swiss-born Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), who helped draft the treaty that ended the War of 1812. Last week Albert Gallatin's wealthy, socialite great-grandson gave an art exhibition at Manhattan's Paul Reinhardt Galleries. Assisting him were the equally social Charles G. Shaw, Susie Frelinghuysen and her husband George L. K. Morris, who attracted a modicum of attention last summer by inserting the name of their snub-nosed Pekingese, Rose, in the New York Social Register. Artists Gallatin, Shaw, Frelinghuysen & Morris hung up some 20 canvases on which numerous arrangements...
...rainbow will be a carnation in your lapel and the comfortable club life of your city. . . . Your profession has no particular claim to distinction in this respect. . . . Our educational system has been too virile in production of men immunized from a sense of feeling of social responsibility; trained in the art of plunder in gentlemanly ways; imbued with the false ideal that the American way means exploitation...
...these days of changing social, economic and political values," Sears, Roebuck's President Robert E. Wood wrote to stockholders last week, "it seems worth while in this annual report ... to render an account of your management's stewardship, not merely from the viewpoint of financial reports, but also along the lines of those general broad social responsibilities which cannot be presented mathematically." Mathematically for the No. 1 U. S. mail order house, 1936 scarcely could have been better. Sears enjoyed the best year in its history. So did its older and smaller rival, Montgomery Ward & Co., which reported...
...Sears' precise General Wood and Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald the social responsibilities of a great mercantile institution must be practiced as well as preached. Two-thirds of General Wood's letter to stockholders was devoted to outlining responsibilities: 1) to the public; 2) to employes (48,200); 3) to stockholders (42,700); 4) to Sears' sources of supplies (6,461 manufacturers). After pointing with pride to the company's policy of keeping wages ahead of advancing living costs and providing vacations with pay, General Wood made the first public accounting of Sears' Employes' Savings...