Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nation's unemployed youth." Their number, about 2,500,000 (aged 16-24) out of both school and work, did not include the army of 500,000 which the New Deal had put into CCC camps. A new agency, NYA, was put into the hands of social-working Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Willis Williams, who at the age of six went to work in a torpedo factory. In spite of setbacks and criticism, Aubrey Williams pushed ahead with NYA. With the help of Executive Director Richard R. Brown, he set up a two-fold machine which gave spare-time academic...
President Roosevelt (Mon. 10:30 p.m., NBC-Blue, CBS, MBC) speaks from Hyde Park, N. Y. to mark the third anniversary of the Social Security Act. Thurs. 11 a.m., receives honorary LL.D. from Queen's University at Kingston, Ont. 2:45 p.m., dedicates the new Thousand Islands International Bridge...
Ruling No. 1 in BULLETIN 263 of New Jersey's A. B. C. (Alcoholic Beverage Control): Bartender-a professional policeman with a flair for mixing may be a bartender at a social function if he strictly maintains his amateur standing...
Consequently, while his social inferiors are performing in tailor-made clothes amid de luxe surroundings, the sole cinema celebrity of the Virginia hunting set is compelled to earn his living in leggings, hide shirts and a Daniel Boone haircut...
...Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, chairman of $14,000,000 American Distilling Co., announced that his company was quitting the Distilled Spirits Institute for good & all. His explanation: "It [the Institute] is more of a protective society than an institution for the elevation and betterment of the industry. . . . It is without social consciousness or soul...