Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Landis talked on the growing importance of special agencies and bureaus in legislative circles in Washington. "With the concentration of departmental interests in such newly-emphasized subjects as social insurance, wages and hours legislation, utilities, and labor security," he said, "commissions have vastly increased the value they are able to bring to better legislation...
...eyes of libertarians, who sniffed at the idea that T. C. (current budget: $3,865,000) could not afford this experiment, New College was to be liquidated for too keen an interest in contemporary social problems. Teachers and students also charged that Dean Russell had consulted only his trustees and administrative officers, undemocratically ignored the faculty...
...born in Maple, Ont., May 25, 1879. Instead, he took the more euphonious name of Beaverbrook, New Brunswick, near the town of Newcastle where he grew up. Sixth son of an impecunious Scots parson, he tramped around Canada, washing drugstore medicine bottles, selling sewing machines, reading law. Social legend says he still owes 15? to a barber in Saint John. Suddenly one day he thought: What I want to do first is to make a great deal of money...
...Allen White has done a lot of studying about Coolidge, "one of the most curious human problems that as a reporter I have ever confronted." Coolidge, he concluded, was "a perfect throwback to the more primitive days of the Republic . . . ? waxwork figure of a Puritan boy, out of the social museum that is rural Vermont." and remained throughout his career a 100-year time lag personified. Most of the evidence-Coolidge's penny-pinching, picklish personality, Yankee cunning, sentimentality, provincialism-fits Author White's thesis. Placed against the teeming, speculative post-War U. S., Coolidge offers...
...sixth Inter-house debate, between Dunster and Adams, is tentatively scheduled for Monday, December 1. The teams will probably discuss the question, "Should the Church place more emphasis on the social gospel and less on personal religion...