Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This last, with some individual quirks, is reflected in his voting record. For: 3.2% beer, NRA, reciprocal tariffs, stock exchange control, work relief, Social Security, overriding the President's bonus veto, Naval Expansion, Supreme Court retirement, repealing publicity for corporate salaries...
...what, and in its place is only an I.O.U. Unless the law is changed, when the time comes to start paying you a pension the Treasury will be required either to default or to tax you and the remainder of the country to get the money. . . . Instead of weakening Social Security, Republicans will strengthen it . . . put a firm foundation under that column of the temple of social justice, now falling down...
Appointed "social ambassadress-at-large" for San Francisco's 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition was Manhattan café society's clown, Elsa Maxwell. Irked, the N. Y. Daily News's World's Fair-conscious "Nancy Randolph" (real name: Frances Kilkenny) wrote: ". . . To-day this column intends to whack Grover Whalen hard for letting the rival San Francisco Exposition grab that peerless partygiver and fun-maker, Elsa Maxwell. Of course, Grover Whalen has Mrs. Astor . . . but she doesn't like publicity...
...once a reflection on the University and a credit to the courage and initiative of eight Harvard and Radcliffe graduates that at long last glimmerings of a cooperative lunch and social center may be seen on the horizon. For many years graduate students, as well as undergraduates outside the Houses, have had an amorphous existence. In spite of President Conant's interest in the project, no dining hall was forthcoming; and hopes for a social center were even more illusory. Then, with no sign of help from above, a group of students took matters into their own hands...
Also on the lists are John G. Winant, former governor of New Hampshire and chairman of the Social Security Board, and Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan. Charles Poletti candidate for lieutenant-governor in New York state, and Thurman Arnold, U. S. special prosecutor of monopolies will also lecture...