Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tuberculosis, dread disease, drew concentrated attention from doctors, public health workers, social hygienists and Red Cross contributors during the past fortnight. Last week the National Tuberculosis Association met in Washington, immediately after the International Union against Tuberculosis, which had met there the previous week...
...Western minds, Rama Krishna, then, is an eminently unsatisfactory religious leader. It is impossible to place him. He did not do anything great; he merely lived. He could barely read and write. Yet he numbered among his disciples the greatest social reformer in the India of the time, the greatest dramatist, and two or three of the greatest scholars...
...wrong road. We should turn rather from Christ to Abou Ben Adhem, who did not love God but rather his fellow men. For when our worship of Mammon has filled our purses to satiety we turn not to fighting the Devil, or Sin, or ourselves, but to social reform, to fighting tuberculosis or hookworm, or vice. The idea is presumably that if we try to patch up the botch Jehovah has made of keeping mankind in running order, Jehovah will repay our time and expense by deputing an angel to put us at the top of St. Peter's waiting...
...whole tone of labor has changed. With its increasing power, manifested by such an organization as the Federation, with the increasing modification of its radical conceptions, Labor has seen the danger of communism and has opposed it. "We regard the Soviet political regime as the most unscrupulous, most anti-social and most menacing institution in the world today" is the unanimous declaration of the American Federation, voiced in the same document which contains a pledge of unswerving loyalty to American principles...
...Veracity," Professor Cabot, Emerson J. Social Ethics...