Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsomely engraved official invitation from the Inaugural Committee's Chairman Gary T. Grayson turned up on his desk one day last week, President Roosevelt let out a roar of delight, seized a pen, scrawled across the bottom a note to Chief W. E. Rockwell of the White House Social Bureau: "Please regret this invitation. I will be too busy...
Racquets is often confused with squash racquets, squash racquets with squash tennis, squash tennis with court tennis, court tennis with lawn tennis. Always recondite pastime, racquets has traversed the social gamut more completely than any other game. It started in London debtors' prisons, where no other form exercise was practical, in the 18th Century. A prison alumnus, Robert Mackay was the first recognized world's champion in 1820. In 1822, Harrow schoolboys took up the game. In 1853, when London Prince's Club built a racquets court, racquets became exclusively a pastime of patricians. Racquets' rise...
...about a poor family named Adamec. The father has been out of work three years. The mother scrubs and washes. The elder son ruins his health in a juvenile sweat shop and the younger shoots the sweat shop boss to get money to help his brother. As a social document But for the Grace of God has unquestionable authenticity. As a play it lacks dramaturgic heights and depths, although there are several memorable individual scenes. Example : the one in which the child workers, panic-stricken when one of them gets caught in a machine, storm the locked fire exits...
Charles Hayden lived quietly at Manhattan's Savoy-Plaza hotel, never married. His comparatively modest interest in charity began when he became interested in the Boy Scout Foundation of Greater New York. He learned enough of recreational work to want to contribute to a few social service agencies, in 1926 gave $100,000 for the site of an uptown Manhattan boys' club. "The businessmen . . . will not have accomplished their full duty," once said reticent Bachelor Hayden, "until there is a Boys' Club in every town . . . in which [boys] may have their God-given right to play...
...National City Bank warned that "it is the duty of banks to do all in their power to avoid the pitfalls which increased prosperity creates." Cried Har vey Dow Gibson to applauding stockholders in his Manufacturers Trust: "As a nation we seem now definitely committed to a program of social legislation which will iron out some of the inequities of our economic order. . . . This is altogether in keeping with the spirit of the times and with the lessons which the Depression taught...