Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Worked over the House's changes in Social Security so as to: 1) freeze at 1% (instead of 1½%) the old-age insurance tax for both employer and employe; 2) raise widows' payments; 3) start payments in 1940 instead of 1942; 4) increase payments to workers who leave employment early (before 60). In the old-age grant section, the Senate provided that the U. S. should contribute $10 for the first $5 put up by a State, match dollars thereafter, thus assuring a total grant of $25 per month for needy oldsters in States willing to give...
Bishop Sheil realizes that the backbone of his Church is the same lowly worker who is also C. I. O.'s backbone. Lately he became interested in the Back-of-the-Yards Neighborhood Council, organized by Saul Alinsky, University of Chicago sociology graduate who for social research once lived with the Capone gang. The Council is sympathetic to C. I. O. Bishop Sheil has felt pressure from the packers and from A. F. of L., but last week he was on Van Bittner's platform large as life after the strike vote was taken. In fact, he read...
Usually the annual cricket match between Eton and Harrow, Britain's two most exclusive "public" schools where many a future Empire builder gets his early training, is a well-mannered, ultra-polite social function. There old grads, most of them carrying umbrellas, wearing cutaways and top hats and accompanied by their wives dressed in ankle-length garden-party frocks, are brought together by the force of the old school tie. U. S. spectators, used to rowdy football games, are always amazed at the polite applause, rather than raucous cheering, that greets the players; at the number of high-collared...
Last week, after the N. N. B. A. convention adjourned, Major Wright went to the White Rock Baptist Church in West Philadelphia, but not to pray. There, in place of the traditional banquet, the delegates joined him for an old-fashioned ice cream social...
...Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller. But at least a dozen of its 45 secondary and minor characters are as interesting if not as important as these. They shuttle in & out of a narrative brightened by anecdote, distinguished by excellent writing, weighted by a shrewd understanding of frontier social forces. The six-year work of a 37-year-old professor of English at San Diego State College, San Francisco's Literary Frontier is almost a Western counterpart of Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England, looks like a promising Pulitzer Prize contender...