Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue so well-prepared and so numerous from Boy Scout quarters that even the prolific pressagents of the New Deal regarded them with awe. The Boy Scouts of America is today no amateur movement but a full-grown U. S. institution, one of the most elaborately integrated, self-perpetuating social mechanisms in a nation which dotes on organization...
...Jersey's Norton is a large, brown-eyed Roman Catholic, a onetime social worker and since 1920 a wheelmare for New Jersey's Democratic Boss Frank Hague. In Congress since 1925, she has got along well with her party because "I always take the recommendation of county leaders as to the fitness of a man or woman for a job." Her formula for getting along with male colleagues is: "Don't disagree with men unless it's necessary. You can have your own way without antagonizing them." Prior to succeeding the late Labor Chairman, Massachusetts...
...blue-eyed Episcopal socialite. Daughter of a wealthy Georgia planter, she studied art eight years in Europe, there met the Irishman she subsequently married, the late Daniel O'Day, an official of Standard Oil of New Jersey. After his death in 1916 Mrs. O'Day took up social work and politics and, with her close friend Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, helped organize New York women for the Democracy. She participates in many of Mrs. Roosevelt's pet projects, is a co-vice president of her Val-Kill Furniture shop. When Caroline O'Day ran for Congress...
...Governor Earle: he and Franklin Roosevelt were born with silver spoons in their mouths and brought up in the stodgiest of rich, conservative societies, Roosevelt among the squires of Dutchess County, Earle on Philadelphia's "Main Line,"* among Pews, Biddies, Cadwaladers, Morrises and other families found in the Social Register and the upper brackets of the income...
...Finance Minister Georges Bonnet. This nimble native of Dordogne, by far the ablest player of Basque pelota in the new Cabinet, will have his work cut out for him to get French finances in shape, but he seemed certain of broad cooperation. Under one of France's new social decrees drafted by Leon Blum and published last week by the Chautemps Cabinet as one of its first acts, the 40-hour week applies to French hotels, and according to their managers this would mean hiring enough extra hotel servants to bankrupt the industry. At latest reports, tourists in France...