Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roll call, doubts that pensions for World War veterans wdll follow the Bonus inevitably. For the V. F. W. the campaign opened with instructions for its able Washington Lobbyist, Millard W. Rice, to demand: 1) pensions or public jobs for every World War veteran, and 2) revision of the Social Security Act so that unemployable Foreign War Veterans can start drawing old-age pensions at 50 instead...
...opposition to the Stalinist regime. Persons accused of being "wreckers, Trotskyists, Rightists, diversionists, counterrevolutionaries, saboteurs" are in fact generally guilty of just-one common crime-deviation from the "party line." So changing, undefined is this line that almost every Russian writer or speaker on Soviet politics, art, literature, social studies, must have been guilty at one time or another of an utterance which could now condemn him as an "enemy of the people...
...gold braid, commercial attaches in morning clothes packed the balcony of Mexico City's Chamber of Deputies to hear President Lazaro Cardenas open the regular session of Mexico's 37th Congress. Senators, Deputies, who disdain formal dress as not in keeping with the nation's "social revolution," attended in street clothes...
...Foundation declined 920 applications for aid. ("The Foundation does not make gifts or loans to individuals, or finance patents or altruistic movements involving private profit, or contribute to the building and maintenance of churches, hospitals, or other local institutions, or support campaigns to influence public opinion on any social or political questions...
...allied Rockefeller-endowed General Education Board two winters ago (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935), took active charge in July of last year, replacing two retiring presidents, Trevor Arnett and Max Mason. For a quarter-century before that Fosdick had been active in Rockefeller philanthropy. War worker, peace advocate, internationalist, social science promoter, he was first if not foremost a lawyer-the sort of genial, persuasive, energetic man who takes naturally to public life without becoming a politician, the sort of man who might have become an inner councilor of the New Deal if his tastes and convictions had lain in that...