Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...message Friday is not judicial reform but the abolition of judicial interference with New Deal measures by packing the court. For some this is the final unforgivable sin, the long-feared crime, marking the climax of an unsavory career. For others, who sympathize with such New Deal aims as social security, minimum wage laws, or conservative measures, the new proposal creates an embarrassing and highly unpleasant dilemma. The ends meet with nothing but approval; but the suggestion of packing the court to obtain these ends meets with nothing but censure...
Admitting the overwhelming nature of the November verdict, there is no indication that this implies Presidential dictation of the Supreme Court, or even serious political attack upon the Court. Admitting even that the Court is often a nuisance to legislators who would reform present the social system at once, there can be no doubt but that this is exactly what the majority of the people conceive to be the function of the court...
...discussion of the Social Security Act, Benjamin M. Selekman, lecturer on Urban Industrial Problems, summarizes the Act, and considers the workability of its various provisions. Particular emphasis is laid on the financing problems that occur under the Act, and provision for care of the unemployed...
...prime value of scholastic aptitude tests is not so much as records of past achievement, but rather as barometers for predicting future worth. With all sorts and conditions of people from which to choose, the scholarship committee cannot possibly draw up examinations that will suit the scholastic training and social and environmental background of candidates all over the country. But the aptitude questions, ranging from multiplication tables to Catherine of Aragon's domestic life, by their very broadness have demonstrated their value as indicators of potential intellectual prowess...
...exams will be given: in the morning a scholastic aptitude test consisting of an oral quiz and a written math exam; in the afternoon a scholastic achievement test which covers literature, languages, History, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences, with some options being being given...