Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This play, despite the social axe it has to grind, is pretty much of the famous old black-and-white melodrama. Wall Street is perhaps the real villain, and it is indicted for the murder of all its speculators and their souls. But the old veteran bull, Nicholas Vanalstyne, though he relishes smashing his enemies, wouldn't think of leaving an orphan or a widow dispossessed by him to suffer in penury. His son, heir, and namesake, however, is a rotter pure and simple. He has lived in sin, but he throws the odium of the crime on his innocent...
Kept ignorant of their chief's deal with the social service center, that 30 percent of the earnings be turned over to the annual's sponsors, the committeeman, speaking for his seven penniless colleagues, said, "If they kick it back to P. B. H. we wouldn't yell. The idea of his making a clean-up stirs us to protest...
Indicating that the $1100 now conceded the social service center as its share in the enterprise should be increased, the vengeful committeeman said, "Steadman would take your shirt and come back for your pants...
...well as its contagious nature, presents a problem that must be faced, and one which the Bulwinkle Bill would go far toward solving. But in the meantime another problem, more difficult to solve, is making itself apparent. For syphilis is rapidly being outranked as the nation's major social disease by the morbid, evil-minded, and sadistic trend of the public press, which can have no good effect on the morals or intellect of the people. This is a subject that may well be carried to the dinner-table, for the trend has already gone...
Although varying in approach, all these jobs aim to give the student first hand knowledge of our growing social problems. From the College Summer Service Group in New York comes the announcement of a project providing thirty-five hours a week of work in the city's overcrowded, but little publicized districts. "Life in the raw" is what this group offers its workers, an insight into the poverty, ignorance, and superstition which slum areas breed...