Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With the opportune aid of the calendar clearing the decks for his Supreme Court fight, the President and Mrs. Roosevelt held their Army & Navy reception ushering in Lent, closed season on social events...
...Hungary. At 36 Sisi was a grandmother. She celebrated by sneaking out to a masked ball, picking up a young man and beginning a clandestine but innocent correspondence. She developed new hobbies: a morbidly "humanitarian" interest in insanity; a kind of throne-room liberalism in which she prattled social equality, without realizing what a limb she was out on. She built a Greek palace in Corfu (cost to Franzi: 30,000,000 kronen), tried to sell it as soon as it was built. She traveled tirelessly. At 57 Sisi became a great-grandmother. She exercised, traveled, prattled harder than ever...
...chairman stated that previous attempts at social assistance had been fruitless and had demanded a remedy of "national security as the objective, and national action through the national government as the approach." In brief, he stressed that "the other levels of Government--City, County, and State--had done all they could; Federal help was necessary...
...Winant proceeded to mold his case with the statement, "in this spirit, then, we might well view the contribution of the Social Security Act of 1935 to the national security." Having treated the various fields of his board, such as, public assistance to people in need, unemployment compensation, and old age benefits, and proved their necessity as well as their justification, he reverted to the spirit of the Act. "It is the greatest piece of social welfare legislation which this nation has adopted in many a generation. As time goes on, we shall increasingly realize the profound importance of this...
...that it is not to be changed", the administrator was swift to proclaim. But the most vital of all of the Chairman's avowals was his far-sighted prediction for the future. "It is a part of the intelligence to expect that we shall learn how to improve social security constantly, and that through the years the system will undergo definite and steady evolution...