Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main plazas of the capital hundreds of peons, laborers, jampacked before loudspeakers, cheered wildly when President Cardenas keynoted "We intend to go forward firmly and fearlessly" with the social changes on the industrial, agricultural fronts...
...passive. Fanatical flamboyance of word or deed is abhorrent to them. Their informal meetings, where they sit in sombre clothes heeding the mild words of those of their number who may be moved to prayer, are the antithesis of the average Protestant revival meeting. Their preoccupations are peace, temperance, social service, the Godly way of life. Their Friends Service Committee, active in rehabilitating jobless U. S. coal miners and ministering to the needy of both sides in the Spanish War, is Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's favorite charity to which in the past two years she has subscribed...
...John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, director general of the Loyal Order of Moose, spoke to a Moose convention in Chicago. Said he: "One of the most significant developments . . . in the last quarter of a century is the apartment house. Few influences make the average person more superficial, nonchalant, and non-social." In Washington, D. C. he lives in a mansion...
Meanwhile railroad operation costs have jumped on four fronts this year: 1) Cost of materials and supplies, particularly coal, are up about 12%, or $125,000,000. 2) Taxes, including those under the Social Security Act and pension laws, have risen $70,000,000. 3) New State laws, such as those limiting train length and increasing train crews will cost $12,000,000. 4) A 5?-an-hour pay raise granted Aug. 1 to 750,000 non-train railroad workers (clerks, signalmen, etc.) will cost $100,000,000. The five big brotherhoods of railway trainmen for a month have threatened...
...Wells is a spark plug. That he has had only a loose connection with the rest of the machine that makes the world's wheels go round is perhaps a pity, perhaps a good thing. If he had fitted perfectly into his social socket the sparks he has emitted for 40 years might well have been neither so noticeable nor so illuminating. On the other hand, Britain's cylinder might have sputtered a little less had Author Wells been firmly pressed into the national service. Pity or not, at 70* H. G. Wells remains what he has always...