Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Protagonists of unrestricted sex education gave Mrs. Dennett a mass meeting in Manhattan. Dr. Edward Loughborough Keyes, president of the American Social Hygiene Association, presided. Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson of the New York Academy of Medicine, energetic in maternal health work, resolved that some permanent agency be formed to study and act on sex education, sex literature. The mass meeting approved unanimously, except for Canon William Sheafe Chase of Christ Church, Brooklyn. He, who had abetted the conviction of Mrs. Dennett, sat in the gallery silent, watchful, preparing to continue his denunciation in debate and lecture...
...instead of idea-puppets, he succeeds in showing only that the couple were incompatible at times when many another husband or wife would have unearthed the remedy. He also shows how new people, people of money and power, took the place of the old nobility in his country. The social lesson is thus outmoded. If the author were to have lectured in the U. S. on the incompatibility of nobles and peasants, few would pay to attend. It is as a psychologist, as the creator of the shrewd Generalin, the love-loving Fraulein Bork, the prurient children, the smug Baron...
...White House guest chamber. Over the dinner table, and later, up in the second story White House den, President and Editor talked. What they talked about, no one knows. From the Executive Offices came no statement. To newsgatherers Editor Lorimer said nothing, except that his was a "social, personal visit." But the newsgatherers, other editors, journalists were set to thinking. During the presidential campaign, they remembered, The Saturday Evening Post said many a kind word about Nominee Hoover, in articles, in editorials. So now, asked observers of the magazine golf, is President Hoover about to return those favors by promising...
McLean v. "Record." Readers of the hard-hitting Philadelphia Record had their attention arrested last fortnight by news that Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington, D. C., Post was suing the Record for one million dollars damages for an article descriptive of "a social incident" between Publisher McLean and Prince Albert Edouard Eugene Lamoral de Ligne, the Belgian Ambassador to the U. S., an "incident" which had allegedly resulted in the Post's editorial attack upon the Ambassador (TIME, May 13, 27). Last week, the hard-hitting Record kept its readers' attention in custody by printing...
...become really serious about the matter, however out of place it may be, it may be well to point out that the reason Harvard "never apologises, never argues, never listens to criticism" is that she has never been fooled by the sort of distinction that appearance, manners, or artificial social orders create...