Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makers of boyish fun dissent from such public discipline, let them reflect for a moment upon their own private situation. University students today live in a time of serious economic unrest, not to say social crisis. Lawless action has been rife in many an industrial quarter. There exists a threat, both overt and implied, to the whole American order of education, technology, law, business and industry, in which the youth of America's colleges hope to take future places of leadership, or at least of steady and gainful employment...
...least desirable phases of the glorification of the American Girl, and incidentally to the jobs of about six hundred more or less honest hangers-on in the profession. The death sentence which Mr. Moss meted out to the burlesque parlors was undoubtedly long overdue as a social measure, but the arbitrary--almost extra-legal--infliction of punishment by the official censor reminds one more of Berlin, or even Boston, and is hardly a happy precedent for the reformers to set in our changing society...
...relatively small (72,015 circulation) newspaper, President Stahlman had a sampling at last week's convention of the major problems facing U. S. newspaper publishers: a threatened 1938 newsprint price rise of $7.50 a ton, 25% up in three years; an increasingly difficult taxation situation complicated by Social Security, particularly involving the use of boys to deliver and sell newspapers, and the prairiefire spread of the American Newspaper Guild...
...Spain drags itself along invertebrate, not only in its political life, but-and this goes deeper and is more fundamental-in its own social living together. None of the mechanisms which integrate the machinery of public life can function this way. One institution breaks down today, another tomorrow, until complete historic collapse will overtake us." But Ortega will not admit that economic determinism (Marxism) supplies the right answer for Spain's condition. Marxism, which he calls "one of the great ideas of the 19th Century, ... is one of the great wheels in the mechanism of history, but it travels...
...single institution which warms all hearts, it is natural that the victory should go to one which despises all existing forms and institutions and occupies itself with other things. . . . [But] the moment there arises a new principle of political law which can win the unstinted enthusiasm of a social group, fascism will vanish into thin...