Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time when women compete with men in politics, business and badness, goodness and piety are seldom seen practiced on a grand scale, or recognized as such by the Press. Moreover, Papal Duchess Brady is shy, extremely apprehensive of publicity. Yet she is the foremost member of her social class in a faith which demands completely public acts of faith of its people. While her husband was living, Mrs. Brady-Dame of Malta, Dame of the Holy Sepulchre, holder of the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice-founded the Carroll Club (for Catholic business girls), visited and gave money to Catholic hospitals...
...secretary, later became counsellor at the Free State Legation. Dark-haired, affable, fond of bridge, Counsellor Macaulay was popular in the quiet set of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend in Washington, sometimes saw-Mrs. Brady at parties. In 1930 he was appointed Free State Consul General in Manhattan, where mutual social circles brought him closer to Mrs. Brady, now a widow who spent her autumns in the U. S.. springs and summers in Italy, Carlsbad, England. Last summer "Bill" Macaulay, an unostentatiously "good"' Catholic, was in his third year as Minister to the Vatican and Mrs. Brady was living...
...Legal education today is an impractical educational program masquerading as a practical one . . . [Law teachers] do not know the economic, social or political basis of legal decisions [or] their economic, social or political effects...
...boat upon which [we] stood was riding the waves buoyantly enough," said Dr. Murchison last week, "but I suspect that in the hearts of each one of us we had a feeling of being already sunk. . . . We saw in perspective a nation committed to a social and economic program which made its costs of manufacture emerge from the level of world costs as the tip of Pikes Peak emerges from the surrounding Rockies. . . . Yet it was a nation engaged in the promotion of trade liberalization. . . . We did not know at this time that, within a few days, we would...
...family breakfast after another was spoiled for Drugman Walgreen because his niece, Lucille Norton, 18, prattled about what she was studying as a freshman at the University of Chicago (TIME, April 22, 1935). Uncle Charles found out that Niece Lucille's reading list in a social science course included books about Soviet Russia in addition to such standbys as Herbert Hoover's American Individualism and Walter Lippmann's A Preface to Morals. Upshot was he decided to withdraw her from school, charged she had been "insidiously exposed" to Communist "influences." A great press uproar and a State...