Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Washington was launched a still bigger and better attempt at horse trading. In the gilded auditorium of the Department of Labor Building in Washington, John G. Winant, former head of the Social Security Board got up to address a skimpy crowd of 300, most of them stodgy, elderly men. "Can we not reasonably expect," he asked, "that, without creating inconsistencies between the textile industry of an individual country and the economic structure of that country as a whole, other social conditions in the textile industry can likewise be raised to the level of other industries...
...diplomat with a reputation for guile. Otherwise Britain would not have sent a delegation of 210 members including Lieut. Colonel Anthony John Muirhead, Parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Labor, or India her High Commissioner in London, Sir Firoz Khan Noon. Czechoslovakia would not have sent her Minister of Social Welfare Jaromir Necas, nor would Germany, who withdrew from I. L. O. when she quit the League, have sent Attache Walther Becker as an official observer...
Handsome Mrs. Harriman, long one of Washington's favorite social warhorses, has done much in her 66 vivid years to merit this promotion. In 1913 Woodrow Wilson named her the only woman member of the Federal Industrial Relations Commission. The following year her husband, Manhattan Banker J. Borden Harriman, died. She settled down to a career in Washington. During the War she became chairman of the Committee on Women in Industry of the Council of National Defense. Then followed twelve long years of Republican regime...
...conceptions are now struggling in the world: first, the old capitalist conception, clinging to abuse of privilege; and second, a deep feeling for social justice latent in the masses. Branding this deeply just social commotion as communism is wrong...
...President of the Basques is thus not a communist but a Social Commotionist, and so are many Spanish Leftists. "Our social advancement policy is a daring one!" went on Radiorator de Aguirre. "We will promote access of workers to capital profits and the coadministration of business enterprise. We are empowered to socialize all elements of production...