Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major Washington social event of the week: the Cabinet's dinner to President & Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt in the Mayflower's Chinese Room, with roses and white lilacs on the tables, warbling by Helen Jepson...
When Franklin Roosevelt produced the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, he knew that his Administration was launching an immense and crucial expedition into some of Government's least charted waters. To give the TVA "the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise" in promoting the social and economic development of a territory of 40,000 square miles and 2,000,000 people, the Act provided for a policy-making board of three directors, each of whom was chosen by the President with the greatest care. Each was promptly hailed by large sections of the public as the best possible choice...
These staggering activities are today administered by Aubrey Williams, onetime social worker, whose salary is $9,500 a year. Relief Chief Harry Hopkins, who gets $12,000 a year, is conservative with the public's money, an inveterate gambler with his own. For three months Mr. Hopkins has been trying to recover from the physical effects of his appalling responsibility. Last week, reports from Florida, where he relieved the tedium of his convalescence with visits to the Hialeah race track, indicated that he would soon be ready to return to Washington...
...nationwide vote were taken to discover the most despised politico-social organization currently extant, the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund would stand at least a fair chance of winning. A group of some 125,000 U. S. citizens of German blood and clubby tendencies, it is hated in the U. S. as an offspring of Naziism. In Germany it is apparently equally scorned by the Hitler Government: 1) as a feeble, provincial imitation, and 2) as a source of damaging publicity...
...Charter. The formulas by which studiously Middle-Class Camille Chautemps hoped to achieve social peace...