Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main, the people had voted for no change in a social concept which had been pretty well formulated by Franklin Roosevelt in the years between 1933 and 1937. They had also voted against Republicanism. On the basis of still incomplete returns this week, Dewey in 1948 received but a scant 200,000 votes more than Herbert Hoover in 1928 (the last time the Republicans...
Since Hoover's day, a Roosevelt, or New Deal, generation of voters has grown up. The voters of this generation voted, in 1948, for a continuation of social security, a continuation of reclamation, TVAs, AECs, SECs and EGAs; for Government help for farmers and labor; for Government supervision of banks and business practices; for federal aid in housing and education. The people, in effect, had voted for themselves...
...Last week, the White House was closed to all sightseeing tours and big social events. Reason: repairs. The great marble staircase, supported by crumbling bricks, is unsafe. Officials say the third floor is a firetrap. Later, the Trumans probably will move across the street to Blair House while repairs are completed...
Other early legislation would call for more social security. Already before Congress is a recommendation to extend social security to 20 million U.S. citizens not covered by it now, and to double fhe benefits now paid...
...Russian custom to honor a hero by calling a town after him. With the renaming of Petrograd in honor of Lenin, the Bolsheviks picked up the custom and carried it on with such vigor that a Russian geography now reads like a combination Who's Who, Social Register and Roll of Honor...