Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Phelps Phelps began petting the voters before he was through college (Yale, Williams). He dances at all functions-motormen's, modists', the Social Register's. His grandfather, the late William Walter Phelps, was (1889-93) U. S. Ambassador to Germany.* The grandson is an ambassador of the sidewalks to the agronomists and small-towners at Albany-fat-faced, loud, generous, shrewd, a smoker of cigars at every waking moment. He professes not even to afford a motorcar in which to battle Matron Pratt...
...homily upon the enslavement of the British workingman to Drink and Gambling. Not that Ben advocated prohibition or anything that would throw brewers or distillers out of work, "but," said he sagely, "over ?600,000,000 [$3,000,000,000] are spent annually in Great Britain on these two social customs, principally on the workingman's beer and his bets on horses and dog racing...
Observers took keen interest in the fact that young, spirited, dynamic Finance Minister Montes de Oca has swallowed with such enthusiasm the Canadian doctor's bulky capsule: denationalization of railways. In Mexico, where advanced social theorizing is typical of even elder politicians, young Minister Montes de Oca might well have aspired to become a benevolent Railway Tsar...
...true revolutionaries,* because if we all have faith, as I have, that our new ideas are now shared by the great majority of the Mexican people . . .then we must know that the electoral districts in which political or clerical reactionaries might obtain a victory over men representing the advanced social movement in Mexico must be for a long time to come in the minority...
Politics: Democracy, with all its faults, is the only possible system of government that helps the individual to help himself. The day will come when the experimental methods now used in the natural sciences will also be applied to social problems...