Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are not very many of them-nineteen-and they are generally full.* Moreover, Ritz hotels are only built in fashionable cities, in cities where there are likely to be many visitors who are capable of appreciating the finer social distinctions...
...Lecture Hall MONDAY 2-5 O'clock English Literature New Lecture Hall TUESDAY 2-5 O'clock French, Spanish, German, Italian Literatures New Lecture Hall MONDAY, MAY 7 9.15-12.15 O'clock History, Government, Economics Memorial Hall History of Philosophy and General Psychology Emerson 27 9.15-10.45 O'clock Social Ethics, Allied Fields...
...Yard, Beck Hall has accumulated an extraordinary amount of tradition, and on more than one occasion has been saved from destruction by its sentimental associations. It saw its hey-day in the gay nineties when the more fact of residence within its walls constituted a mark of social distinction, and when many of the men who have since held high rank among Harvard graduates were associated with it. As a monument to the Harvard of twenty and thirty years ago Beck Hall will always live in the memories of nunterous Harvard men. The building itself no longer occupies, however...
Chicago. In the city whose name has been a synonym for social war and political billingsgate, Champion Deneen warred upon Robert E. Crowe, the State's attorney of Leopold-Loeb fame and Mayor Thompson's entourage. Deneen and his candidate, Judge John A. Swanson, survived bombs exploded on their doorsteps and routed Crowe utterly. Mayor Thompson had vowed to resign if this happened but, of course, did not resign. The Small-Smith-Thompson-Crowe slogan, "America First," was as thoroughly exposed as the Ku Klux Klan. Libel suits and coroner's inquests were on Thompsonism...
Finally the Conservative Daily Telegraph ably summed up London's reaction to Chicago thus: "Scenes like these have never occurred in Europe within the mem ory of the living, and couldn't possibly occur. We are looking at a social organization which has united the riches and luxury of the most modern civilization with the manners and customs of particularly disorderly mining camps...