Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government is impaired, and outraged citizens prepare to take the law into their own hands; democratic rule is endangered, and the way is prepared for the rule of mobs or dictators; worst of all, labor movements and organizations are discredited, faith in liberal democratic government is permanently impaired, and social progress is impeded...
Three years ago when the Social Security Act was still just an eleemosynary gleam in Franklin Roosevelt's eye, Congress, which got its early training in industrial legislation working on the railroads, passed a pension law for the 1,500,000 railroad employes of the U. S. In May 1935 the Supreme Court threw out that first Railway Pension Act along with NRA. Before the summer was out Congress tried again. The District of Columbia Supreme Court found the second law unconstitutional. So although the Social Security Act has been debated, passed and in force for a year, there...
...editorially minded may want to use the Chronicle to relieve his over-burdened brain, while the budding young scientist can feel free to propound whatever theories he wishes in the Lowell House Scientific Society meetings. Perhaps there will be found future Walter Lippmanns among the members of the House Social Science Club...
Among the more social institutions, the House dances will be found as a welcome relief to the more serious side of life. Thanks to enterprising men on previous dance committees, Lowell House dances have established a reputation of being among the best in the College. Other pleasant social customs are the High Tables on every Monday night (when the High Table was first suggested it became the butt of many cartoons in the local publications; but now it is copied by every other House), the annual Lowell Birthday dinner, and the Spring party for the parents...
...obvious pains that Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart have put themselves to in writing the book. They have tried so hard to make their product entertaining that one is somehow won over by the pervasive enthusiasm, and persuaded to forgive them the lack of any brilliance. Their attempts at social comment are especially feeble. They apparently felt that no play could dare to appear before this hyper-socially-conscious world without some reference to President Roosevelt, the American race problem, Communism, and "Comes the Revolution", even if that play be an avowed farce. Their allusions to these matters betray...