Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system of attack on the New Deal. Instead of useless frontal offensives, Vandenberg went along with the New Deal far enough to find the flaws; then by reading and study mastered the technical answers to those flaws; then amended constructively. In this way he exposed the "dangers" of the Social Security's so-called $47,000,000,000 old-age reserve fund of the future. Similarly he won smashing victories over Franklin Roosevelt when he needled the Florida Ship Canal and Maine's Passamaquoddy power project so effectively that Democrats joined him to vote them both down...
...Poland fought. The third European republic to end within the last year and a half, it had much to fight for. Finicky Westerners complained that Poland's democracy was superficial, Leftists bedazzled by propaganda about collective farms sympathized with its poor peasantry. But Poland had a record of social progress which, in terms of her initial difficulties, seemed as imposing as those of Europe's totalitarian States. Its Sejm, or Parliament, looked feeble compared to London or Washington. But it was Jeffersonian compared to the drilled and subservient Parliaments of Moscow, Rome and Berlin. Its foreign policy looked...
...FORTUNE published the first (of a series of) findings. Obtained by the FORTUNE SURVEY'S method of scientific sampling, these first results were somewhat experimental (it is harder to calculate what is a scientific cross section of business than to poll members of each age group, geographical group, social group, etc.) Findings on this first attempt...
...Kept Modified Repealed Deposit Insurance 84.7% 3.9% 3.1% CCC 78.1 11.4 7.4 Banking Act 64.7 14.0 3.8 Housing Act 56.9 19.0 19.6 Securities Exchange Act 44.5 34.2 3.6 Holding Co. Act 33.7 35.5 9.1 Wages & Hours Law 29.8 47.0 21.4 Social Security 24.3 57.9 17.3 WPA 12.1 41.7 44.4 Wagner Act 9.8 41.9 40.9 Undistributed Profits...
Fine Arts 1e has jumped more than a hundred over 1937 when the course was last given. Music 1, a comparatively new course, has the large number of 178 students enrolled. These courses have evidently attracted many from the social sciences which have been losing ground in recent years...