Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...takes a while for an American, even a Northerner, to become accustomed to the social equality of the races in Brazil, but he cannot fail to be impressed by the casual harmony of interracial relations. In fact, one might say that there are no "interracial relations" in Brazil; they all are Brazillians, not Negroes or Latins or whites or blacks...
...Leopold-Philippe -Charles -Albert -Meinrad -Huber-tus-Marie-Miguel of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, otherwise known as Leopold III-should come back from exile to resume the throne. It is the overriding issue in the June 26 elections, and by last week the campaign was hot and ferocious. The Christian Social Party (Catholic) favored Leopold's return. The Socialists and Communists were against it. Labor threatened a general strike if Leopold returned...
...freshman at Wellesley College, brown-eyed Margaret Clapp found herself one day on both academic and social probation. She was flubbing physics and had come in too late one night from a date ("The car really did break down"). It was not the best of beginnings, but Margaret Clapp did not let it stop...
Bigger Business. While Truman publicly deplored bigness, Wilson continued, he went right on heading plenty of "big businesses"; an insurance system (Social Security), a bank (RFC) and a shipping system (Maritime Commission). "Apparently," purred Wilson, "he wants to make all of these bigger...
...question asked was: "Assuming he is otherwise qualified do you think a Communist should be permitted to teach at colleges 1) in the sciences, 2) in the social sciences, and 3) in the humanities...