Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frank examination of the social system showed that it, too, was in collapse; but in this case there was not such unanimity. The vast majority of our people, but by no means all, wanted to build it up on sounder foundations and on sounder new lines...
...struck oil. Their less lucky neighbors have made Oklahoma a No. 1 centre of easy money crusades, including the Townsend Movement, whose Cherokee-blooded onetime Vice President Gomer Smith Oklahoma last year elected to Congress. Last week it appeared, however, that some dishonest Oklahomans had found another bounty, the Social Security Board's old age assistance plan...
...Federal Government matches the State's contribution and adds 5%, for administrative expenses. Some $10,000.000 of Federal money has poured into Oklahoma since the State got its program going in July 1936. When Oklahoma's indigent old reached the impressive total of 68,000 the Social Security Board began to investigate. A random check of the rolls in 46 of the State's 77 counties disclosed that $685,000 of the assistance money had gone to ineligibles, indicated that a complete State check would raise the total to $3,000,000. At this point the Board...
...those who attended the meeting were small fry, politically and economically. Even Congress members who hold cabinet rank in Indian provinces are held down by Saint Gandhi to a salary of 500 rupees per month (non-Congress assistants get some 2,500), are forced to travel third class, refuse social invitations from the British governors. Because of these restrictions, a great sensation was caused recently when Saint Gandhi was found to have partaken of two bananas, an orange, three walnuts and a cup of boiled milk at the house of Sir John Anderson, then governor of Bengal. The tempest...
Open to all men in the University, the new group stresses its completely non-political nature. Sociological matters, not social problems, are the interest of the club...