Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...replace Harry Hopkins at the head of WPA, the President elevated Colonel Francis Clark ("Pinky") Harrington, whose political coloration is neutral to the point that he boasts of never having voted (see p. 8). To replace Miss Mary Dewson, 64, resigning from the Social Security Board because of physical exhaustion, the President named Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward, fortyish, director of women's and professional activities...
...seems to be all too easy to arouse prejudice and passion against the people who so long ago struggled out of the ford of the Jabbok to meet Esau, the hairy man. . . .* Today the Jew in certain areas is a political eunuch, a social outcast, to be dragged down like...
Born at Bristol, Va., of a Vermont father and a French Canadian mother, Pinky Harrington graduated second in the class of 1909 at West Point, has since proved himself an able engineer and administrator. Outside his office, he is an ornament of social Washington. Inside his office hangs a quotation from George Washington: "Do not suffer your good nature, when application is made, to say yes when you ought...
President David Lasser of the Workers Alliance said: "We have nothing against Colonel Harrington personally. He is a fine gentleman. But ... he represents the Army type of mind which does not, in our opinion, embody the qualifications necessary to administer a civilian undertaking involving so many social and labor relations...
Genevieve Taggard, teacher (at Sarah Lawrence College), biographer (of Emily Dickinson), editor (of The Measure, a magazine of verse) last month published her Collected Poems (Harper, $2.50). With her rich literary background and varied social experience, she writes as one who feels that she is expected to say something rich and varied. Her poems are stopgaps for silence-what their author apparently feels would be an embarrassing silence. But since silence speaks louder than stopgaps, her poems give a net impression of saying nothing. Her lyrics, whether addressed to Nature or to Man, all share the same insufficiency...