Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal centralization," he believes. Washington has become the home of a bureaucratic system, "remote from the people with burdensome, perplexing laws, lacking popular sanction, red tape and the general incompetence of subordinates performing duties of responsibility." The reason for this is "because progressive men anxious to bring about social betterment have not had the patience to work things out through the slow process of State action, but have sought to attain results through the quicker and broader scope of the Federal Government." Whatever our troubles nowadays--"if crops fail, if prices go too high or too low, if men gamble...
...Germany, Industrialism, and the Social Problem," Professor Sanger, Harvard...
...fine old tradition. The gentility rules the city. Their clubs-Comus (the oldest), Atlanteans, Momus, Proteus, Twelfth Night, Mystics, Druids-gave balls and there was much whispering as to whether little Miss Such-&-Such got any invitations. Then there was the Queen, chosen more for her social graces than for Atlantic City qualifications. This year she was Miss Betty Watson, daughter of Banker Eli T. Watson, last year's Rex. The new Rex was Leon Irwin, insurance man, to whom Mayor Walker drank his only champagne toast of the trip...
...Russell: "I feel insulted that President Frank did not communicate courteously with me but caused the students to cancel the meeting. Dean Goodnight refused to allow the students to invite me to dinner. I was treated as an intellectual and social outcast...
Other speakers pointed out that corporations should contribute to solve the social problems which they create in local communities. Said Colonel William Cooper Procter, President of Procter & Gamble, Ivory Soap makers, chairman of the conference: "Corporate gifts to community chests should be . . . among the legitimate expenditures of the corporation...