Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constructive program. Few of them agree on the merits of compulsory health insurance or of the Wagner Health Bill. What united them was a desire for full, free discussion on the problem of medical care. The Progressives banded together merely to: 1) "introduce a liberal and inquiring attitude towards . . . social problems"; 2) "stimulate the society to take the lead in the movement to improve medical care of the people of this city...
...social sciences are sociology, economics and political science; part of psychology (attitudes, traits, abilities, collective behavior) and cultural (as distinguished from physical) anthropology. They overflow the bounds of science into law, history, education, linguistics. *Writing on the racetrack information racket last week, Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler observed: "Chicago has been so rotten for years that the town may seem to be abandoned and utterly without any will to turn square, but, for the first time in the modern history of the city, there are some stirrings of conscience and civic decency...
...occasion: first of three Junior Assembly dances, demarcating what Society calls Society from what the public calls Society (run-of-the-mine Social Registerites). Notably present: Mary A. (for Alrichs) Steele, tall, blonde, beauteous daughter of the late Socialite Banker John Nelson Steele, earlier this year the candidate of Stork Club's Pressagent Charles ("Chic") Farmer for 1940 Glamor Girl. Notably absent: Patricia Plunkett, shapely, blonde daughter of Mrs. Dunbar Plunkett, suggested by Glamorizer Farmer as substitute candidate when Mrs. Steele yanked Mary back into the shadows of glamorless respectability...
...Santa Ana, Calif., Sheriff Jesse Elliott described the aftermath of a county jailbirds' party featuring fermented prune and peach juice: "Colossal hangovers, loss of good behavior ratings, and social ostracism at the hands of other prisoners...
...believe the people of this community will be deterred by Mike Sullivan from reading what they want to read, hearing what they want to hear, seeing what they want to see. If the Holyoke Bookshop were to close, a whole range of social and economic thought would no longer be readily available in Cambridge. At a time of crisis when so many ideas are being reassessed, we feel that thin would be a serious intellectual loss. Bebe Stearns, for the Holyoke Bookshop...