Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unemployment in France increased by 53,000 from October to February. Foxy Paul Reynaud boasted: "That amid the international events of the past few months France has been able to rebuild and increase her forces proves beyond a doubt the robustness of her economic organism, the solidity of her social structure, and the suppleness of her institutions." A more dispassionate judgment was the London Economist's which saw in Paul Reynaud's recovery no vindication of "liberal capitalism" but a drive "towards a war economy," the limitation of consumption and other indications that French democracy...
...Soviet Union's new institutions may count far more than her planes and tanks, more than her standing army of more than two million. It will be a test of the theories of Lenin as well as of the practices of Stalin, of the hold that socialism-or of a social structure that calls itself socialist-has on the loyalties of 170,126,000 people. What has it given them? How firmly would they unite to defend it? After the purges and crises, after the Five-Year Plans, how much enthusiasm remains for the system that gave rise...
...Episcopal Church, in down-at-heels Stuyvesant Square, Manhattan, has its traditions. One is beet-nosed J. P. Morgan the elder, who for 28 years, as senior warden, loomed up & down its aisles with the collection plate, left it a $500,000 endowment in his will. Another is social service work, eloquently represented in such liberals as Dr. Karl Reiland and its present pastor, Elmore McNeill McKee. Another is its 72-year-old barytone soloist, Harry Thacker Burleigh, a Negro...
...goth annual convention in St. Louis and balked. The convention adopted a resolution declaring that it was "unmistakably and emphatically opposed" to all provisions of the Wagner Bill. The Bureau of Legal Medicine denounced it for unnecessarily expanding the work of the U. S. Public Health Service and Social Security Board, for "extreme vagueness [in spending] vast sums of money" and the "great powers conferred on certain Federal officers in the control of the spending," and a special committee of the House of Delegates met in camera for three days, emerged with a document listing 22 objections to the Wagner...
Died. Ernst Toller, 45, German expressionist poet and playwright (Man and the Masses) ; by his own hand (hanging); a few days after attending a world convocation of writers (see p. 79); in Manhattan. Leader of social revolutionary movements in post-War Germany, Toller wrote many of his works in prison, was exiled by the Nazis, fought Fascism in Spain, worked in the U. S. to aid Spanish refugees...