Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week, Congress in four months had made progress only on national defense, deficiency appropriations, reorganization. It had finished only four out of eleven major supply bills. Committee hearings but no debates had been held on such time-takers as revision of Social Security, Labor Relations, Wages & Hours...
...Harold Stassen's first purpose in visiting Washington was to promote cooperation between his reorganized State Government and the Roosevelt Administration. His second was to tell G. 0. P. Chairman John Hamilton how to turn out the New Deal in 1940. His way: eschew attacks on "the sound social objectives" of the New Deal, promise to do more for the farmers than Franklin Roosevelt has done...
...revealed that two of the men who had been turned down by the House of their choice shared the following positions: Jubilee Chairman, Smoker Committee, Red Book Business Manager, football managing, Union Committee, hockey and golf teams, and Phillips Brooks House work with the Undergraduate Faculty, Hand Book, and Social Service. One is in group 5; the other in group...
...elective system, Harvard has taken pride in allowing her sons to follow their own bent down the paths of learning. As a result the uniformity which a thorough grounding in the classics gave the Harvard graduate of thirty years ago has disappeared. Now Harvard turns out physicists, chemists, and social scientists, whose only common bond is the proven ability to swim 50 yards...
...fact that he doesn't have to smoke up the ventilator any more. We Elis would describe him as of the species "Joe College," the rah-rah, razzle dazzle "hot dog." We would think of beer suits, "The Nass," and house parties, and pronounce him a clothes-horse, social butterfly, and incipient "lounge-lizard...