Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also suggested that control of the fund be shifted from the Treasury to a "trusteeship" composed of the chairman of the Social Security Board and the Secretaries of Labor and the Treasury...
...protected" by Hines, but this could not be proved. Neither could the District Attorney prove that Hines got $500 a month for permitting professional gambling in his Monongahela Club (political headquarters) in Harlem, or that Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, head of the prostitute trust (since jailed), was more than a social acquaintance of Jimmy Hines. He did stay at the same hotel and play golf with Luciano on a junket to Hot Springs, Ark. Another Hot Springs habitue was 'Legger Owney Madden (beer...
Died. Annabel Hubbard Phelps, 74, wife of Yale's Professor-Emeritus William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps; of apoplexy; in New Haven. Full of fire, fun and hospitality, Mrs. Phelps was almost as famed in Yale's social life as her husband. An experienced housewife, she always kept ten chickens in the icebox...
...Sergei Eisenstein, after six unproductive years that followed his ill-starred trip to Hollywood in 1930-32. All Russian pictures are advertisements for the U.S.S.R. This one is no exception, but it shows, not the handiness of modern peasants with mowing machines, but the first faint stirrings of Russian social consciousness, circa 1242 A.D. Fortunately, for U. S. audiences, even this patriotic ferment occupies Director Eisenstein's attention only for a few minutes at the beginning of Alexander Nevsky. Thereafter he becomes intoxicated with the cinematic possibilities of a battle fought on a frozen lake between medieval armies...
...many a business executive, expert that he may be in selling goods or building a mousetrap, has no gift for wooing the public: he needs an associate who can expound his "social responsibilities" to workers, to the buying public, to local communities, to the Federal Government. The easiest way to get this done is to hire one of the small group of well-fed, top-flight "public relations counsels...