Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter to Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate's Finance Committee, the President recommended amending the Social Security Act to provide standard payments for 1,100,000 additional prospective beneficiaries, including 175,000 national & certain other bank employes, 180,000 seamen, and 800,000 persons, now 60 or more who, by the existing statute, would get a small lump sum payment instead of annuities...
Easily the prettiest scene in Washington last week was the annual White House Reception to the diplomatic corps, unofficial opening event of Washington's social season. Not all its prettiness, however, was in polychrome uniforms and effusions of gold braid...
...better known and more widely appreciated than those of any other artist in history. Three weeks ago, his Mickey Mouse created a minor government crisis in Yugoslavia. Last year, as "Miki-san," he was Japan's patron saint. In Russia the works of Disney are appreciated as "social satire," depicting the "capitalist world under the masks of mice and pigs." The late George V, it is said, would not go to a cinema performance unless it included a Disney film...
Perhaps no one is less analytical, or cares less, about Walt Disney's Quality X than Walt Disney himself. He was actually puzzled when pundits discovered social significance in Three Little Pigs. "It was just another story to us," he says, "and we were in there gagging it just like any other picture. After we heard all the shouting, we sat back and tried to analyze what made it good. Then we tried consciously to put some social meaning into The Golden Touch. It ended with King Midas surrounded by his gold, hollering for a hamburger...
...titles, making 1937 the biggest publishing year since 1929. There were 1,798 new novels, 610 biographies and autobiographies, 302 travel books, 991 new titles in the field of belles-lettres that includes poetry and criticism, 685 titles that came under the general head of politics, economics and the social sciences. In this enormous mass of bookssed, confusing...