Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...philosophy of the New Deal is pragmatic. Such a philosophy discards all blueprints for social change, and accepts the experimental method of science...
...whose size (6 ft., 200 Ib.) is calculated to impress Latin Americans, white-mopped, genial Dr. Cherrington, 52, is no doctrinaire. Twelve years ago when Capitalist James Henry Causey, his conscience stricken by the violent Denver tramway strike of 1920, undertook to finance a Foundation for the Advancement of Social Sciences at the University of Denver, he picked Ben Cherrington from a YMCA student job to direct it. Director Cherrington began by asking 150 serious thinkers, including Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Jan Smuts, Harvard Law Dean Roscoe Pound, Ramsay MacDonald, Herbert Hoover: "What would you do?" Consensus...
...sahibs of the British colony in Singapore had thought it bad enough some years ago when the Sultan married (and subsequently divorced) a Scotswoman who had been the wife of a Singapore physician. A cabaret-girl-Sultana the sahibs considered quite impossible. Social royalists, they ganged up and put moral pressure on the precedent-breaking Sultan by unanimously refusing his invitations, although Miss Hill was properly chaperoned at the palace by her mother. The Sultan had his revenge, by ordering the sahibs off his golf course, their children away from his bandstand...
...same date all Germany's Jews over three months old must obtain similar cards, costing $1.20, must present them on all occasions, social or business. Objects: to trace criminals, raise revenue, prevent goys from dealing with non-Aryans inadvertently...
...literary consequences, started wintering in the U. S. Southwest. Even the boldest guess could not have anticipated the strange desert influence that breathes from The Doomsday Men- a lively mixture of adventure, mystery and improbabilities, free of literary significance but heavily weighted with a moral regarding the curse of social pessimism...