Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were no social functions, no civic ceremonies. All sessions were to be closed but President Heywood Broun of the American Newspaper Guild got them opened after the first day. Like A. F. of L., C. I. O. declared for a Japanese boycott, condemned the National Labor Relations Board. It unanimously resolved that contracts were sacred. It announced that it had spent $1,745,968 in the past 16 months, more than $900,000 on the steel strike alone. But just as C. I. 0. was A. F. of L.'s principal business, so A. F. of L. turned...
Halvdan Koht, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Norway and professor of History in the University of Oslo, will give a free, public lecture on "The Social Development and Policies of Norway" on Tuesday, November, 2, at 8 o'clock in Emerson...
...first is that Mr. Roosevelt, however humanitarian his ideals, has proved that he lacks the ability to translate his ideas into sound legislation. When Mr. Landon observed that the President has delayed social progress by insisting on the passage of readymade laws which, after trial, prove to be of inferior workmanship, his statement was accurate and supported by cogent illustrations from recent history. The NRA was the most distressing example of Mr. Roosevelt's leap-before-you-look policy, and accounted for two years of confusion and wasted time in the national economy. The Wagner Act and the Social Security...
...aside from the above historical consideration and more fundamentally, the decision to affiliate was based on the belief that the Harvard Student Union was concerned with same problems of international relations, social security, and civil liberties that faced other colleges and other students throughout the country. On the Harvard yard there is another particular reason why this gesture away from localism is well considered. Too long have we bred a spirit of indifference, of a kind of local pride which is not a pride of accomplishments, but a pride of position. Affiliation would serve not only to aid other student...
...this apathy we are losing one of the real tangible advantages of the college plan. President Conant has pointed out what a stimulus to true education the dinner table can be. President Seymour indicated in the inaugural address his high opinion of the colleges as social influences. It is now up to the individual colleges to show co-operative zeal in making of the dining-halls places where master and student will meet often for the benefit of all concerned. The Yale News...