Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Church in Chicago, as chairman of the University's Board of Social Science and Religion, as a Y. M. C. A. worker. This, not merely because he was brought up in a churchly home - his father was a minister, his mother a missionary worker -but because Physicist Compton thought through, over a number of years, to a belief in God and in man's free will in "glimpsing God's purpose in nature and sharing that purpose." Last week Dr. Compton embarked upon further, and wider, institutional activities. He accepted the Protestant chairmanship of the National Conference...
Exploring a "strange, half-lighted world," FORTUNE found that the contraceptive industry was one "with an enormous social responsibility" which "on the whole" it failed to meet. FORTUNE discovered that the contraceptive business amounts to $250,000,000 a year, which is "slightly bigger than the barbershop business and very slightly smaller than the jewelry business." Only $38,000,000 is spent for simple male equipment, the rest for women's. Manufacturing and retail markups ranged from 120% to 300%. "No product is very satisfactory," found FORTUNE, and "the only method yielding even a semblance of certainty was that...
...Social Security taxes...
...draws a subtle picture of the relationship within the strange Alcott family, but is principally memorable for the light it throws on U. S. culture before and after the Civil War. Viewing Louisa Alcott as a writer of great native powers, and Little Women as a work of genuine social and literary influence, Miss Anthony with gentle strokes traces Louisa Alcott's progress from a high-spirited tomboy to a hardworking old maid. The impression of a frustrated and unhappy life is communicated almost in spite of her efforts. In Louisa's revolt against her father...
With less build-up and ballyhoo than attends the opening of a third-rate motion picture, there started at the beginning of the term a series of twelve lectures of vital interest to all who appreciate the personal and social blessings of good health. Organized by Dr. Charles F. McKhann, the free, public addresses held at the Medical School every Sunday afternoon have already benefitted hundreds of men and women who weekly pack the School's largest amphitheatre, and have enlightened thousands of others through the medium of the daily press...