Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet will meet all who are interested in social service work this spring for lunch and dinner in the dining halls today and tomorrow. Special tables will be reserved and all who wish to discuss possible work can avail themselves of this opportunity...
...excessively mild and unemotional disposition, suddenly finds fame thrust upon him, for as the supposed killer in defense of a beautiful woman, he is the idol of the nation. The extravaganza with which this plot is unfolded, the surprise twists in the last act and some satirical comment on social climbers, women with pasts, publishers of "pornographic pulp," shysters, bankers, female adolescents who go in for studied moods and histrionics, and male adolescents who are tough, are the chief virtues of this lively, highly amusing comedy by Edward Caulfield...
Informed Mexican observers believe that the greatest threat of a turn to the Right in Mexico comes not from the disorganized conservatives and dispossessed landlords but, paradoxically, from within the Cárdenas regime itself. President Cárdenas came in on a program of "social revolution" for Mexico's proletariat which is now encountering rough weather. For three years of his six-year term he insisted he was still pointing Left. Suddenly, two months ago he pushed through measures which smack of a totalitarian state and make him virtual dictator of Mexico. In rapid succession he dissolved...
Seven months ago Army Chief Colonel Fulgencio Batista launched a social, economic "New Deal." On the one hand he amnestied Tyrant Machado, on the other he decided to make payments on the defaulted bonds to bolster Cuba's credit so he could begin borrowing afresh. Last week he had his figurehead President, Federico Laredo Bru, rubber-stamp through congress a settlement which provides: 1) refunding of $40,000,000 5½% bonds, largely held by the Chase interests, with a 4½% issue; 2) payment of $20,000,000 short-term credit owed the Chase; and 3 ) appointment...
...National Social Hygiene Day" last week, radiorators, notably General John Joseph Pershing, Dr. Parran and President Ray Lyman Wilbur (M.D.) of Stanford University discussed such matters over 350 broadcasting stations. Dr. William Freeman Snow, director of the American Social Hygiene Association announced that, of the $500,000 which he needs to propagandize for Dr. Parran's program, he already had collected $102,000. Senator Robert Marion La Follette of Wisconsin and Representative Alfred Lee Bulwinkle of North Carolina urged Congress to appropriate $271,000,000 towards a 13-year campaign for prevention, treatment, control of venereal disease...