Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the guests invited were Speaker Longworth and his popular, influential wife, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, onetime "Princess Alice" of the White House. Great is Mrs. Longworth's political prestige, great her social power, independent her behavior. She sent Mrs. Meyer her regrets, making it clear that she declined to sit below Mrs. Gann. Not to be outdone, Mrs. Gann and the Vice President, likewise stayed at home that evening...
...parliament to elect as chancellor no one of their number, but a potent businessman, Dr. Ernst Streeruwitz, who in his youth was a smart cavalry officer of the Habsburg Imperial Guard. Such a choice will not long be stomached by the second largest Austrian party, the radical, devoutly Marxian "Social Democrats...
When the first volume of Capital was published (in German) it raised no great storm. It was to do its work later ? in Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Russia, Japan, Latin-America, China. It was not a guidebook for revolutionists. It was the fountainhead of a social current...
...established the Settlement Music School Building and endowed it permanently. Results were speedy and plainly visible. Hostility and suspicion vanished from among the families benefited by the school's work. They told their neighbors. Friendliness spread. Then it became evident that, from a musical as well as a social point of view, nothing permanent could be accomplished except by a national school of music, with the best instructors in the world, with no entrance qualification but merit. In 1923 such a school opened its doors -the Curtis Institute of Music, named in honor of Mrs. Bok's mother...
...situation that would limit the scope and possibilities of the Advocate as an organ of student literary expression. New quarters to meet the needs of the day are not only desirable but necessary, but these quarters should definitely remain those of a publication and an over emphasis of their social usefulness ought not to follow...