Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Social Hygiene Association Inc. (Wed. 1:45 p. m. NBC-Blue) gives the floor to Eleanor Roosevelt, a medal to U. S. Surgeon-General Thomas Parran...
...economizers on Senator Adams' committee were asked by David Lasser, head of the Workers Alliance: "Is the majority in this Congress trying deliberately to provoke a situation of social disorder?"; were told by Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City, president of the United States Conference of Mayors: "Havoc will be rife throughout the nation." A committee of actors & artists visited Washington bearing petitions with 200,000 signatures demanding continuance of WPA arts projects. Cafeteria, hotel & restaurant workers telegraphed en masse. Senator Adams got one telegram which was delivered as follows: "Are you a man or a delete...
...matter in the privacy of his Library Committee Room. To his surprise, crowds of Congressmen flocked in. He hastily moved the meeting to a larger room, and then discovered what was happening: Republicans in Congress (193 this year compared to 106 last year) had decided to make it a social occasion. Under the leadership of New York's heavy-humored Representative "Ham" Fish and Missouri's bucolic Representative Dewey Short, they voted ten-to-one that Ham Fish, not Alben Barkley, should head the delegation and pick "a dozen other lucky Congressmen to share the junket...
Besides having an "H" name like Messrs. Hopkins and Harrington, Howard Hunter likes to play the horses. He also knows how life is lived on both sides of the social crust, has what it takes to get along with both sides...
...Culbert Olson, who pardoned him], repudiated the class struggle and helped to elect to office a man who stands squarely upon the precepts of capitalism-a champion of private ownership. Before and since you [Tom Mooney] gained your freedom, you have expressed your intention to labor for a better social order. And how have you begun? By registering as a Democrat, as reported by the press...