Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the Tokugawas men in trade (hei-min) were classed in the lowest social order?lowest even than actor. Respectfully submit your "rubber tycoon" or your "baseball tycoon" reads very amusing to Japanese ears...
...active Communists are being perpetrated by the Kulaks. . . . Soviet farms, village libraries and Soviet bureaus have been burned down by the Fists* in their fierce opposition against all measures undertaken by our Communist Party and our Soviet Government. . . . Murderous attacks have been perpetrated against Communist village school teachers and social workers, women as well as men. . . . Seven murders and four attempted murders took place in public assemblies or in Soviet bureaus. The roll of our Communist dead contains the names of four Chairmen of local Soviets and one Secretary. ... A destructive blow at the Kulaks must be delivered immediately...
...fact that a gift of $3,000,000 by an anonymous donor was about to make possible "a radical experiment in undergraduate life" by the establishment of an inner college. The purpose of this innovation, as a residential unit, is to foster "within its walls those features of social and academic life which are left largely to chance in the present existence of upperclassmen at Harvard...
...beat and cow the inmates cruelly. Maniac Beers kept tab of the cruelties and through interest in the subject regained mental balance. He was freed. Then he wrote his famed book, A Mind that Found Itself. For 20 years it has been a gospel to social workers...
Last week the national committee met in Manhattan with several hundred physicians, psychologists, educators and social workers from all parts of the country. They complained of the insecurity of their finances. Money for their work has come haphazardly. Hence to get a regular income they organized the American Foundation for Mental Hygiene. They want a million dollar endowment. Already they have $150,000 pledged, a condition that made Humanitarian Beers, now 52, glow with happy zeal...