Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the American Constitutional Convention of 1787, students concentrating in social sciences will hold a Constitutional Convention to consider possible alterations of the American form of government, fitting it to modern economic conditions...
...paving stones, empty bottles and a little fierce rioting began with brawny wenches active in baiting police to "strike a woman." By now the crowd was swelling to an ultimate 10,000 and something like a total of 3,000 police were moving up. Inside the Olympia about 300 Social Party members sat watching on the screen The Battle, while outside battle was already raging or about to rage. From the Opera box of the President, four miles distant, the Premier sent dashing to Clichy his Private Secretary Andre Blumel and his Minister of Interior Marx Dormoy, then sat back...
...real street war or suburban French Revolution by the time Premier Blum's investigators reached Clichy. The police, fearing a rush by armed workmen into the Olympia and a massacre inside, were now trying to evacuate the 300 French Social Party members and pipe them safely out of the arrondissement through thin police lines stretching through the crowd of 10,000. The crowd grew so ugly that gendarmes decided to clear the pavement outside Clichy Town Hall, and into it angry Communists retreated, hurling brickbats as they withdrew...
Aside from political animosity, there is another cogent reason why the Pawtucket denizens have heckled the Journal so insistently. Both Journal and Bulletin oppose Mr. O'Hara's Narragansett track. Not very high in the established social scale of U. S. race tracks, the Narragansett course is nevertheless one of the most lucrative in the land. Into the stout little satchels of its pari-mutuel cashiers are packed hard-earned Rhode Island dollars to the tune of some two million a year. The Star likes to attribute the Journal and Bulletin hostility to the fact that their owners...
...Project, he recently completed four mural panels entitled Aspects of Suburban Life, three of which have been assigned to the billiard room of the American Legation Building at Ottawa. In these murals, exhibited in last week's show, shop girls stroll on main street, paunchy tycoons play golf, social climbers watch a polo game...