Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...businessmen and schoolmen agreed that: 1) U. S. education in recent years has paid too much attention to methods of teaching and not enough to social problems; 2) business has been backward in adjusting itself to new technological conditions. But when they began to discuss what should be done about it, the debate grew bitter. Businessman Houston warned the educators they were flirting with dangerous, collectivistic ideas. More bluntly, Businessman Jones charged them with letting businessmen down, demanded that they do something to remove the impression prevalent among businessmen that educators were "persistently questioning the continued usefulness to society...
...that businessmen and lawyers tend to wait longer than the average before taking another wife. Educators, public officials and medical men are not far from the average. Clergymen and engineers are quicker, a good proportion marrying again in less than two years. Dr. Abrams explains this by 1) the social advantage of a wife to Protestant ministers; 2) frequent moving of engineers to new locations. Scientists apparently remarry more quickly than any other group. For this Dr. Abrams had no explanation whatever...
...encourage the President in every effort he shall make to restore confidence and normal business conditions, and to support Congress in the position that its legislative program should be directed for national recovery for employer and employe alike rather than toward the enactment of legislation based upon untried social and economic theories. . . . We pledge ourselves...
Despite Richard Whitney's Groton & Harvard background, social connections, family tie-up with J. P. Morgan & Co., his brokerage business apparently went from one financial crisis to another. In 1926 he was so hard-pressed for funds that he hypothecated the funds of his wife's trust fund for a firm loan, subsequently repaid it. In 1929 his brother lent him $500,000. In 1930, same year he became president of the Exchange, Richard Whitney began misusing securities of the New York Yacht Club. By 1931, Depression had nicked him so badly that he used his position...
...Harvard Guardian, undergraduate social science magazine, is inaugurating a new series of radio programs to be broadcast over Station WEEI every Tuesday evening at 6:45 o'clock...