Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-liberal nationalists. But Rathenau's secret dream of a completely rationalized and goosestep-clicking German industry was remembered by some of his young disciples who became Nazis. Hitler's first and second Four-year plans for making Germany self-sufficient owe more to Rathenau's social thinking than any Nazi would dare to admit...
...years as a symbol of academic freedom" at Johns Hopkins. He ran for Governor of Maryland as a Socialist,* excoriated Marylanders for the lynching of a Negro, quarreled with Hopkins trustees, once went to Duke University to tell its co-eds that Benefactor James Buchanan Duke "was lacking in social insight...
Snug in a chateau facing Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc, students of Geneva College for Women had a gay time talking French as well as English, dropping in on the League of Nations, making the most of their social opportunities-until the CzechoSlovakian crisis. After Munich, the Misses Burgess and Lux could find only six U. S. girls whose parents would let them go to Geneva. They padded their enrollment with four CzechoSlovakian girls on scholarships, opened the fall term, soon began to hear from the U. S. girls' parents. Each time Adolf Hitler made a speech, the parents...
...college finished the year at his estate. Belora Villa, in Greenwich, Conn. Thereupon the Misses Burgess and Lux packed the Czech girls off to their homes and Geneva College for Women sailed bag and baggage for Boston. Last week the temporarily transplanted college began to explore educational and social opportunities in the more harmonious atmosphere of Greenwich...
Methodist doctrines and ritual are flexible enough so that little controversy arose over their definition. But over a lengthy and liberal social creed submitted to the Conference, there was a sputter. Delegate Alfred Mossman Landon objected to the section which promised the support of the Methodist Church to conscientious objectors. Youngish Delegate Lloyd E. Foster of East Orange, N. J. shouted that only the "grey-haired and baldheaded" objected to the section. Red-faced, Delegate Landon shouted: "I submit that the argument is a cowardly one!" Nevertheless, the Conference voted down grey-haired Mr. Landon...