Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been knocked off by Administrative action and another $115,000,000 by bookkeeping adjustments in the Old Age Reserve Account, a total reduction of $323,000,000. But reduced interest rates on loans to farmers will cost the budget $40,000,000; extension of PWA, $25,000,000; social security tax refunds. $36.000,000; the Railroad Retirement Act, $113,000,000; cotton loans...
Debt. The net deficit represents a potential addition to the National debt now approaching $37,000,000,000. Thanks to the fact that the Government will buy more than $1,000,000,000 worth of its own bonds for special investment accounts, largely in connection with pension and social security measures, the Treasury will not have to resort to public financing. Indeed, the National debt in the hands of the public will probably be smaller at the end of next June than last June...
...Vatican City there is a jail. . . . No sentence has yet been passed on any penal case. . . . No better conditions exist for workers than those prevailing in the service of the Pope. . . . They have enough to spend on simple amusements. They are secure and happy in the highest sense of social reform. . . . There can never be a breath of scandal. Family and social probity are an obligatory minimum. . . . The Pope is air-minded, permits the cardinals to fly, and has even projected a fleet of helicopters...
...Perfect Specimen (Warner Bros.) experiments with the solemn hypothesis that a boy may be nurtured to-all-round perfection in a sort of social vacuum; but that when he is tested against assorted worldliness he will relapse into human frailty. Irish Cinemactor Errol Flynn, a godlike young man of limited acting ability, performs the title role, and in demonstrating his perfection is at one point required to take most of his clothes off.* In this picture he labors under the screen name of Gerald Beresford Wicks, who has been schooled in all the arts and sciences by a bossy grandmother...
...starched shirts and white collars to supply Mr. Marshall with money for his sporting activities and his spectacular private life. For a brief blazing period he was publisher of Hearst's Washington Times. Even before that, he was taken up by amused Washington socialites to whom on every social occasion he recalled the fact that he did their laundry...