Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know how it will end," Benjamin Nathan Cardozo wrote in 1933. "I know that it has been an interesting time to live in, an interesting time in which to do my little share in translating into law the social and economic forces that clamor for expression." Having lived his time and done his share, as member and Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, he died last week at 68, of a diseased heart...
...hold it in arid reverence. "The judicial process," he wrote, "is one of compromise between paradoxes, between certainty and uncertainty. . . ." Because his learning was great and his mind keen, he found his way cleanly through legal paradoxes. In his Supreme Court majority opinion upholding the Social Security Act last year, he stated the essence of the philosophy which made him "a judicial evolutionist": "Needs that were narrow or parochial a century ago may be interwoven in our day with the well-being of the nation. What is criticial or urgent changes with the times...
...Harry Hopkins is in politics as a lifetime social worker, who wants the Roosevelt Administration to succeed so that his plan for permanent work relief may be established. Last week he was able to deny righteously that some paper bags marked "Donated by a friend of Senator Alben W. Barkley" and given away near a WPA depot in Kentucky, were a campaign come-on fostered by WPA. Also he could deny any great consequences issuing from his most publicized political acts so far this year: plumping for Otha D. Wearin's nomination for the Senate in Iowa, and whitewashing...
...told a Senate committee last April: ". . . This program must be such that American citizens accept it as a matter of right-with no feeling of social inferiority." He saw six things...
...During the last election there were seventeen million people who voted against the present Administration. I think if you would take a poll of these seventeen million people you would find an overwhelming majority of them believe in collective bargaining . . . social security . . . unemployment insurance. They believe in relief-relief to the needy and unemployed, but not the financing of a vast political machine under the false label of relief. They believe in a better distribution of wealth created, in raising the standard of living, and a great many other social reforms...