Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each morning Dr. Thorndike spends exactly eight minutes reading the newspaper, each night reads himself to sleep with Punch, a detective story or the encyclopedia. An exceedingly rapid reader, he has read through both the Britannica and the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. He is colorblind, cannot drive a car. Once, walking with his brother in Boston, he saw a golf club in a store window. They bought it, went home and looked up golf in the encyclopedia, then experimented in the back yard with the one club, a ball and two tomato cans...
Once a year the bronzed brick building known to Manhattanites as the Metropolitan Opera House has its one big social night, the opening of the Opera Season. The occasion is a sort of public festival for those who love music and for those who like to see and be part of the show. So last week the Metropolitan filled again with bulging dowagers and stuffed shirts, music lovers, some in white ties, others in frayed collars, stridulous debutantes with glassy-eyed escorts, and a great dun horde which prides itself on loving music more than show but nonetheless selects...
...days to include a third called "Labor Day," the manufacturers turned many an unfamiliar stone in their search for enlightenment. They will listen to Leo Wolman on the labor outlook; General Hugh Johnson on "Wages & Hours Legislation;" Colgate University's President George Barton Cutten on "Hiatus in Social Re-sponsibility;" M. I. T.'s President Karl Taylor Compton and Caltec's Robert Andrews Millikan on Science & Industry. For national and international information the manufacturers will look to Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee and Sir Wilmott Lewis, suave, ironical Washington correspondent for the London Times...
...Social Security, not because of any inherent dislike for social legislation but because the Act is badly drawn and in need of drastic revision...
...principal request is for reasonable certainty-the assurance that laws, policy, taxation will not change greatly between, say, the time a plant is planned and the time ii starts operating. And in approaching the peace negotiations, Mr. Chester will ask for open minds. He thinks his program is fair, social, constructive, liberal. "If it is not, we are prepared to make it so." He wants capital and labor to recognize in advance that both employers and union leaders must "get off the back fence and act like men of intelligence before real progress can be made. ... Is Government then prepared...