Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reached the top title, the Secretary of State announcing his promotion from U. S. Minister to Sweden to become U. S. Ambassador to Argentina. In Buenos Aires, the Blisses will be responsible for the most expensive of all U. S. embassies. There is no doubt as to their financial, social or intellectual qualifications...
...Campbell idea is oppose mainly by those who are appalled by its corollary: a social revolution...
...explained away all taint of scandal as follows: "My father founded the Newport Market Refuge for Women, and helped to found St. Mary Magdalene Home as a refuge for fallen women. I remember going to these places with him as a boy. My mother went too. The main social work in which my father and mother were interested took the form of such rescue efforts...
...small boy with a bat and a batting eye who can find someone to pitch to him, will bat for hours, will cry, "Chuck us another! Watch me knock it outa the lot!" Joy is his. Among adults, the same joy is experienced by the woman at a church social whose seamstress has told her just why Mrs. Jiggetywig left her husband; or by the male dinner guest in Sedalia, Mo., who took his vacation under the auspices of Thos. Cook & Son. These, to squeeze the last drop of bliss from omniscience, will hint: "Ask me another!" Two youths lately...
After long social work, Robert Fulton Cutting, now 74, knows that the public must be bludgeoned into any unwonted activity; and he can bludgeon. At the beginning of this century, when Theodore Roosevelt was being hornswoggled out of New York politics into the obscurity of the U. S. Vice Presidency, the administration of New York City was noisome. Where Tammany Hall did not control, the gangs of Senator Thomas C. Platt (1833-1910) took graft. Mr. Cutting, then an obscure businessman in Manhattan's financial district, tried to fight the bosses, got little public aid. Obdurate, he took...