Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economy (TIME, July 18), President Truman was now trying to explain the formula so that the patient itself could understand it. All the country really needed, Harry Truman believed, was the proper dosage of public works, some other financial therapy from Washington (the Fair Deal's economic and social legislation) and the close cooperation of business, labor, agriculture and government...
What was needed now, the President said, was to pump new life into the sagging economy with a series of Fair Deal measures to increase minimum wages, broaden social security, raise farm price supports through the Brannan plan. In essence, his program was a moderate dose of the old New Deal mixture: deficit financing, some brave whistling, some Government pump-priming...
...U.S.S.R. as an international activity of free workers whose prime interest is to discover new truths and new facts, but as an activity subordinated to a particular ideology and designed only to secure practical results in the interests of a particular national and political system . . . The new social-political orthodoxy is . . . inimical to the free spirit of science. There is now a scientific party line in the U.S.S.R., and those who stray from it do so at their peril...
...cultural rather than a popular or financial success. Hutchins had set the spiritual tone of the gathering: "The major concern of thoughtful citizens today is the lack of serious consideration for the application ... of the basic human standards best represented in the humanities-philosophy, religion, ethics-and the social sciences...
...driving their Daimlers and hunting the fox halfway in time between two world wars, swarm all over this chatty, rambling book. Lavish Hampton Park in western England, home of one of Britain's richest, noblest families, is their weekend headquarters. There, hostess Lady Montdore whips them through their social paces and screens the bachelors who swarm around her daughter. Polly Montdore at 19 is more beautiful than all the priceless Hampton oil paintings put together-and colder than a Highlands wind. When the man of her choice is free to marry, she does her own proposing, pouncing...