Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House. Waiting for their own Farm Bill last week, House members had nothing to do except to go on listening to oratory on subjects ranging from neutrality to Social Security. Liveliest altercation of the week was caused by Labor Committee Chairman Mary Norton's attempt to coax the Wages & Hours Bill out of the Rules Committee where it has reposed since last August with a petition to discharge the Rules Committee. When Majority Leader Sam Rayburn announced that he had signed the petition, urged his confreres to do likewise, Republican Leader Bertrand Snell was inspired to a dour comment...
...side of its mouth in short, hair-raising words. A soundly written, expertly produced play, its close-knit suspense timed to the last held breath, it seemed fated by first-nighters' extraordinary enthusiasm to extraordinary success. Some partisans, reading between its hard-bitten lines a sweeping social preachment, freely prophesied that it would win the Pulitzer Prize. Even those who saw in it only a macabre folk-melodrama applauded the play's outspokenness and sincerity...
...Ghost of Yankee Doodle (by Sidney Howard; produced by Theatre Guild. Inc.). Though more and more social problem plays invade the Manhattan stage, few are good, none great, for good plays are written by gagmen, poets, wits, fakers but not by ax-grinders. Audiences still like Shaw and Ibsen, not for their lectures on social reform, but for their conceits, paradoxes, taut drama. Last week, in a muddled play that brought a famed U. S. actress out of retirement, this perennial fact was underscored again...
Long since defunct are the Cathari, the Patarini, the Albigenses, many another sect denounced as heretical by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. But the heretic Waldensian Church, born of social and religious restlessness in the 12th Century, still exists as the world's oldest evangelical Christian body. It was founded by Peter Waldo, a rich Lyons merchant who vowed himself to poverty, defied the Pope by preaching and interpreting the Bible in 1179. Excommunicated along with numerous other heretics in 1184, he attracted a following who believed with him that it was wrong to take oaths...
...York City 1,000 girls under the age of 10 are annually forbidden to attend school lest they infect other little girls with vaginitis. Fortnight ago Director William Freeman Snow of the American Social Hygiene Association collated data to show that in the nation there are 200,000 children known to be similarly infected. Actually the cause of vaginitis is gonorrhea which children contract usually by contact with their older sisters or mothers. Dr. Snow hoped that by publishing his statistics he might arouse the U. S. to a new sector of the venereal front now under attack by public...