Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have caught up. It is a home of saints and scoundrels, heroines and houris. There since Depression I has grown up a strange society in which men born in the great open spaces and hardshells with their feet two generations planted were artificially mixed with sunkist visitors and moonstruck social freaks...
...value of old age pensions in winning the Democratic nomination (virtual election) for Governor of Texas. Colorado is going gently broke because its promisers tried to give the oldsters too much ($45 a month). Last week Franklin Roosevelt, the smartest politician in the big U. S., recommended that the Social Security Act should be revised to extend its benefits to another...
...over such a man-a Sudeten German Social Democrat-who stepped in front of my car," radioed John T. Whitaker of the Chicago Daily News from Prague. "His head was badly cut, but when I insisted not only on taking him to a hospital, but in giving the police a full record of the accident, he pleaded 'the police will be compelled to send me back and I will be beaten to death.' He explained, this mild, reasonable little Socialist, that the Czech authorities had no choice. 'If too many Sudeten German refugees collected in Prague, Hitler...
...Prague had gone two British Labor Party henchmen, Messrs. Gillies and David Grenfell, especially to succor Social-Democratic Sudetens. "These people must be saved if we have to rouse the whole world" said Gillies and Grenfell in a joint statement. "The Czechs will now forfeit within a few days the claim to the worldwide sympathy they have deservedly won if they drive back to torture and death at the hands of the Nazis these front-line Soldiers of Democracy...
Excellence of The Wind lay not only in its severe economy of line, color and composition but in its classic clarity of mood. By comparison People (see cut), by U.S. Artist Arnold Blanch, winner of third prize ($500), seemed a stiff bit of social consciousness greatly damaged by the fumbling inclusion of Washington, D.C. In the U.S. section of 102 paintings, critics found as great or greater pleasure in Bernard Karfiol's big, soft Summer; John Marin's Sea with-Red Sky, a small canvas with a whipped cream lather of white paint which at 60 feet carried...