Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present economic and social system a good...
...Thomas E. Dewey (Tufts and the University of Michigan), new President Frederick Harold Stinchfield of the American Bar Association (Bowdoin and Bates), retiring President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke (Bucknell and Columbia), RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones (Temple and New York University), John Gilbert Winant, onetime chairman of the Social Security Board (Oberlin and Knox). G-Man John Edgar Hoover accepted an Sc.D. from Kalamazoo College and an LL.D. from Westminster College (Fulton...
...Labor] movement is a sound and healthy thing. It could be made the first step toward an integrated, Christian social order. It is a definite fact that Communist agents are active in the field. . . . If, however, an intelligent, Christian social doctrine be intelligently and zealously propagated in the movement, the Communists will not have a show. Understand, we see the need for Catholic participation in the movement if there never were such a thing as a Communist, but as things stand now there is need a hundredfold...
...main honors went automatically to sons of the nobility. Smarting ever after, as an old man he let loose against the college a blast of irony that all but put it out of existence, having first advertised it as the place where he picked up his ideas on "social iniquity and inequality" and his anticlerical bent...
...contrast with similar presses of the past, such as the Black Sun Press conducted in Paris by the late Henry Grew ("Harry") Crosby, New Directions professes a social purpose. Editor Laughlin believes with I. A. Richards and most other competent critics that language, like a swimming pool, needs to be constantly renewed and purified for the pleasure and health of those who use it. If stagnant associations and clichés can be broken up in people's minds they will be more imaginative and receptive to ideas of social change. Says Editor Laughlin: "It is the word worker...