Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franco for Fascism-Had not Benito Mussolini, the Founder of Fascism, thus brought everyone up to date on what Fascism is in 1937-namely not the handy prop for Capitalism it was once pictured, but a dynamic social force-the significance of where Spain's leaders stood last week would have been much less clear. They were suddenly and squarely asked where they stood by Roy Wilson Howard, one of the most usefully inquisitive executives journalism has yet produced...
...flunked English. When the Russian Revolution came the Culbertsons lost their estate. Father Culbertson returned to the U. S. broke. Sasha began his concert tours. Between 1921 and 1926 he made over $120,000 Some of this money he sent to his brother in Paris. Ely was studying the social sciences at the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Politiques but seemed more determined to become a boulevardier and bridge shark...
Last week a tidal wave of propaganda against venereal disease, having gathered force for 13 months, flooded the entire nation. In San Francisco and Manhattan, in New Orleans and Duluth, and in 200 communities lying between, groups of earnest men and women who support the American Social Hygiene Association listened to facts and exhortations. From the President of the U. S. and his wife down to the most blushing volunteer social worker, there was evidenced a determination to make venereal diseases, especially syphilis, as rare as typhoid fever. Repeatedly quoted.was President Roosevelt's recent dictum, first of its kind...
...last week's many meetings, women were as voluble as men. To them Mrs. Roosevelt sent a message as unique as the President's: "I am very glad to know that women are taking part in the conference on social hygiene...
That is precisely the goal of the health officers of the nation led by Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service, and prodded by Dr. William Freeman Snow, general director of the American Social Hygiene Association. They want victims of syphilis (especially) and gonorrhea to cease being furtive about their afflictions and to get treatment. In line with that program every case of those diseases must be registered precisely as though it were a case of typhoid fever. And, as with typhoid fever, health officers must track down the men & women disseminating gonorrhea...