Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Further remodeling, the Council recommended: extending coverage immediately to some 2.800,000 ineligibles, including seamen, bank employes, and employes of non-profit religious and educational institutions, and by 1940 to 12,000,000 farm laborers and domestics; a study of the "administrative and financial problems" involved in Social Security for "self-employed" citizens, principally the nation's 32,000,000 farmers...
...Manufactured in Hartford in a factory owned by that upright city's social and financial elite...
...Caesar tries his best, now & then, to seem degenerate and willful. The strong man, Ferrovius, loudly debates whether to fight back at his oppressors or practice Christian nonresistance. The lion remembers to growl. The martyrs try to look downtrodden. But to no avail. Androcles fails to transmit a serious social message, for the good reason that it is not a serious play. Shaw's Androcles is a whimsical fellow. His Caesar is a playboy. His frisking lion is fed more gags than Christians. His martyrs are as exhilarated as though they were going to see a show rather than...
...made itself felt. Christian Century, a thoughtful and influential organ of Protestantism, had lately declared that the churches today are in a "time of waiting," a time in which "the church does not know how to act; yet has not learned to wait"; a time in which the social action which was once the Church's great concern had been stalled. To the Catholic view, the Church was, as always, the Church militant-though, to many of its rank & file, the Church seemed to be fighting, on some fronts, a rearguard action...
...social nature, crossed estate