Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year. In 1924-25 he gained a position on the University 150-pound boat. In the following year he was a member of the University crew squad. While in college he was Phillips Brooks House Librarian, a member of the Cercle Francais, of the Mountaineering Club, and of various social clubs...
...departed from my revolutionary opinions because the Prince departed from the orthodox conduct of royalty. He has broken the whole tradition of royalty and has made the British throne the safest in the world and himself the safest man in England. He is today the chief advocate of social reform in England. A year ago this statement would have met with hooting and indignation at any labor meeting, but now would receive cheers...
...sages, Dr. James Henry Breasted, Orientalist of the University of Chicago and Dr. George Aaron Barton, Semitist of the University of Pennsylvania, debated on which was the older civilization, Egyptian or Mesopotamian. Dr. Breasted said that the Egyptians' technical attainments in medicine, art, science, sculpture and social organization predicted a civilization already ancient 5,500 years ago. Pharaohs mined copper in the Sinai Peninsula as early as 3400 B. C. Dr. Barton suavely pointed out that the Sumerians in Babylonia made gold and silver objects as early as 3500 B. C. and more beautiful than anything produced in Egypt...
...nerves already raw from the public interest taken in his social battle in behalf of Mrs. Gann (TIME, April 15), the Vice President last week exploded on the matter of his Mayflower rent. Said he with hot feeling...
...greater social import than the problem of the Vice President's official hostess, is the problem of night-club hostesses in free-&-easy Manhattan, where Assistant Attorney Mabel Walker Willebrandt lately lost her Prohibition cases against the two outstanding personages of nocturnal fame, Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan and Helen Morgan. Manhattanites were interested last week in the following statement by Miss Guinan...