Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harriman, asked her to back him in the organization of a symphony orchestra that would train and place promising graduate students. Mrs. Harriman promptly took him up, gave him full charge of the musical end, and rounded up for her management boards as imposing a collection of Social Register names as ever decorated the Metropolitan Opera lists. In 1930 Mrs. Harriman dropped put (reason: Depression) and the association was reorganized under the presidency of Mrs. Mary Gary, socialite, music-loving daughter of music-loving Harry Harkness Flagler. By last week, when the National Orchestral Association gave its first concert...
Hopeful of mending this situation, Mr. Rosten applied for an $1,800 Social Science Research Council field fellowship, for 16 months stalked Washington reporters at work, bent elbows with them at the National Press Club bar, came away from the Capital with a neo-scientific cross section of 127 (out of over 200) men who tell the country what the Government is doing...
...books. In the U. S. attempts to sell new books for less than $1 have come to grief in the past, and the newest and biggest cheap book venture, Modern Age Books, offering well-printed, well-edited new volumes on labor subjects, politics, economics, novels with a social slant and detective stories at 35? to 75?, is now being watched by old-line publishers to see if it can duplicate Penguin's success...
Heine's placid father wanted him to be a comfortable merchant; his mother had more ambitious, vaguely social plans. As a result, the boy shuttlecocked from a Jewish cheder (rabbinical school) to a more aristocratic Jesuit Gymnasium, then back to a matter-of-fact business college, and finally to the University of Göttingen, where a wealthy uncle sent him to study law. He got his degree but never practiced. Instead, he hurried to Berlin, published there in 1822 a juvenile volume of poems, the Junge Leiden (Young Sorrows). "I got forty free copies." he wrote later...
...more. Their whole lives for the fall months revolve around thoughts only of football. Yet all are required to keep grades as high as students with no activities of any kind; indeed by some, the football players are even watched more suspiciously than scholarship men. Most forms of social life and diversion are automatically given up, and for all this very little praise is meted out during a poor season or even a moderately successful one. It is easy to see why players take their football seriously; if there is to be a winning team, it is the only...