Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swindle? One headache which both Franklin Roosevelt and Chairman Altmeyer sought to save old Bob Doughton was that of worrying over where the money for a revamped, certainly more expensive, Social Security program is to come from. Without passing on the board's recommendation that the 1940 hike in employer-employe taxes from 2% to 3% should be the last, pending study of the Act's finances, Mr. Altmeyer told the committee that Secretary Morgenthau was studying the subject, would report in due time...
Huey ("Every Man a King") Long has been dead for three years and five months. Gerald ("Share the Wealth") Smith is forgotten. Father Coughlin ("Social Justice") still radiorates, but not so many listen as used to. Father Divine ("Peace, It's Wonderful!") still operates from Harlem his "heaven" across the Hudson River from Franklin Roosevelt's mother's place. Principal demagogues in the Democracy currently audible are Martin Dies (see p. 13) and Doctor Townsend...
...press correspondents, reassuring them that Cuba is "not going Communist, nor Fascist, nor Nazi. We are progressives." The Colonel recently had his bread buttered with a $50,000,000 U. S. bank loan to Cuba and he showed he had not forgotten it. Because the Colonel believes that "social aspirations are similar" in the three countries, he proposed a "United States-Cuba-Mexico axis," declared that "there is no room in the Western Hemisphere for any political ideology of Europe...
...only 6,000 priests.* Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy, looking businesslike to South American churchmen, who still wear their soutanes in the street, visited papal nuncios and hierarchs, talked with them in Italian and French, found everywhere that Latin American prelates look to the U. S. hierarchy for social and cultural leadership-a leadership which has been slow in materializing...
...geniality last week lay what might be interpreted as a subtle character change in the No. 1 U. S. private banking firm. The typical Morgan man has always been one who went to a good preparatory school, graduated from an Eastern university, had influential friends and a high social rating. Of the present twelve partners, ten are university graduates, all are listed in the Social Register. The three new partners are all public-school men; only one went to college; none is in the Social Register; none got his start through influence...