Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This crisis is roughly comparable in magnitude to that of the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries," the author of "Cultural and Social Dynamics" stated...
...Meaning of Progressive Education lies deeper, however, than questions of efficiency. For the first principle and the religion of Progressive Educators is democracy, and their biggest question: how to achieve it. On the left wing a group thinks that Progressive Education should be chiefly concerned with the social order. Opposed are those who are chiefly concerned about individual development. Recently Progressive Education's No. 1 present-day philosopher, Ohio State's gaunt Professor Boyd Henry Bode, in a book called Progressive Education at the Crossroads, declared that nothing but chaos could result from exclusive attention to children...
...every ten persons in the U. S. contracts syphilis at some time in his life. Twenty-six States have laws aimed at preventing the marriage of infected persons, but the American Social Hygiene Association regards the laws of only nine of these States as effective.* Among the most thoroughgoing is a New York law which requires physical examinations as well as Wassermann or Kahn tests for syphilis from all prospective brides and grooms. Tests for gonorrhea are not required, since they are not yet reliable or practical enough for large-scale...
...premarital blood tests taken in the city since the law became effective last July, only 1.34% or 358 cases showed positive results. This figure tallies very closely with the percentage of syphilis cases found in New Jersey and Connecticut tests. The figure is low, explained the Social Hygiene Association, because those who know they have the disease do not take the test, but wait until they are cured before being married. The percentage of positive cases represents persons who did not realize that they had syphilis. Hence the required tests not only did them a great personal service but prevented...
...jury at Albuquerque, N. M. exposed the hottest WPA political scandal of the year. It indicted 73 people for using WPA as a political machine, giving work-relief preference to obedient voters, exacting political contributions from WPAsters by threats and intimidation, organizing WPA foremen and timekeepers into vote-compelling "social clubs," taking WPAsters off their work to pack a political parade and then falsifying the rolls to make it seem they had been working...