Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...different from that of the two previous ones, but no less noteworthy. Although Mr. Roosevelt's packing plan failed, this term finds the Court philosophically and politically realigned and slanted in a new direction. And the important cases likely to come to judgment this winter are largely social in implication. Concerned chiefly with the rights of newly-resurgent Labor and the right of the Government to enter the public utilities field, they include...
...Emerson. After his graduation, the firm he started with his Classmate Sam Warren prospered brilliantly. By the time he was married at 34 to Alice Goldmark, whose father, a political exile from Vienna, had emigrated in 1848, Louis Brandeis was both mature and financially secure enough to manifest the social consciousness that has since been the dominant theme of his thoughts and deeds...
...grammar and with academic glee point out the weaknesses of phrasing. Yet, considering the value of the almanac for of the colonists, one must deafen himself to the cries of the literary know-alls and listen only to the appeals of practicality and amusement that come from social historians. Once Moses Coit Tyler wrote: "No one who would penetrate to the core of early American literature, and would read in it the secret history of the people in whose minds it took root..., may by any means turn away, in lofty literary scorn, from the almanac--most despised, most prolific...
There must be many men trained in the social sciences here, but active now in the outside world, in government, business, and journalism, who have significant points of view which the "Guardian" might make it its business to draw out, and thus keep us all in touch with each other...
...benefits from studying American tradition are twofold: the student emerges well instructed in his own social and intellectual background; but more important still, he also learns the American tradition, which is to deny tradition. Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa Address may not be as well written as many of Carlyle's essays, but it is a direct challenge, an inspiration to every young man who reads it. So it is with Whitman, Poe, and Hawthorne, and a hundred other American authors. American history teaches the same lesson: we honor Sam Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln for the originality of their several...