Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 1,500 square miles which includes New York City and adjacent sections of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut live 11,000,000 souls bound together by economic and social ties. Among their many superlatives, the inhabitants of this megalopolis support the greatest medical community on earth-814 hospitals and other agencies for care of the sick, which can hospitalize 70,976 bed-ridden patients at one time...
...eyed Miss Gilmore, besides directing workers' education for the State of Illinois, has worked in factory towns herself. On the staff is a labor representative to interpret the students' questions to the faculty, explain the answers. This year the school will deal especially with the Wagner Act, Social Security, and what they mean to workers...
Said Mr. Brown to Dr. Jessup: "No one is more aware than yourself of the profound changes in economic and social thinking that have taken place in this country during the past decade. . . . American business is today confronted . . . with new social responsibilities . . . with new concepts. . . ." The company's principal purpose, Mr. Brown added, would continue to be the making of profits (for 1937: $4,100,909). Observers who have had their eye on Mr. Brown's concern for social responsibilities (TIME, March 21) put Dr. Jessup's appointment down as a well-meaning gesture, waited...
Died. Princess Jane di San Faustino, 74; of pneumonia; in Rome. Born plain Jane Campbell in Bernardsville, N. J. she married a prince, became the sharp-tongued social queen of Rome for nearly half a century...
...minute cell." A year later, at the height of her fame, she quit the stage to marry the heir to a large Georgia plantation, handsome, dilettante Pierce Butler (no kin to Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler). Their marriage started badly, and got worse. When Fanny refused to compromise with social conventions, Pierce agreed with his family, who thought he had married beneath him. When Fanny published her U. S. travel impressions, which made a scandalous success, her in-laws' opinion was echoed even...