Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight next, but its job is to be ready whatever the spot. Purely on the laws of political probability the army's present guesses rate future wars in the following order of likelihood: 1) civil uprisings on the U. S. mainland- some sort of trouble in the social order; 2) war in South America in case fascist economic penetration rubs the U. S. past endurance; 3) war in Europe or Asia for any reason; 4) least likely of all, invasion of the U. S. mainland...
...section authorizing draft boards to "exempt" any designated civilian from military service. In practice, this would mean not exemption but civilian service wherever the War Department thinks the citizen should be, would prevent a shortage of skilled labor and executive personnel in vital industries and areas. The Social Security Board's list of some 40,000,000 U. S. citizens, identified by age, residence, occupation will be very useful for this purpose...
...their way to get free education. Nor do they often work up an appetite for warmed-over ideas. Consequently, the gratuitous revival last week of a school of thought that had its heyday more than 40 years ago made news. As the Henry George School of Social Science bought a $50,000 building in Manhattan for schoolhouse and headquarters, disciples of Georgism disclosed that the single-tax doctrine today has some 21,000 student followers throughout the U. S., is growing rapidly...
Scientists may dispute the social value of nudism but on the physical value of sun bathing they are of one mind. Contrary to nudists' beliefs, prolonged exposure to sunlight is definitely harmful. Sunburn is a form of skin disease, stretching and often paralyzing the superficial capillaries of the skin, increasing fibrous tissue. In time the skin grows scaly, inelastic, wrinkled, becomes predisposed to cancer. Classic medical example of sun-caused cancer is the case of Australian sheepherders, who work unprotected in strong sunlight, contract more skin cancer than any other group...
...Passage To India, his slow-growing reputation has landed him solidly among the best contemporary English novelists. Author Macaulay makes a sensitive analysis of Forster's fiction, a weaker analysis of his critical writing, is both baffled and protective in dealing with his abandonment of fiction for fugitive social and literary criticism...