Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night Mr. King had a long session before the same hearth where the Canadian trade agreement had its genesis, slept in a White House bed. Next morning he returned to his Legation in silence. He might have made no more than a social visit, but not an observer in Washington believed it. Too many coincidences were involved...
...years ago Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada paid a social visit at the White House, for no ostensible reason except friendship. The prompt upshot was the U. S.-Canadian reciprocal trade agreement. Last week, on the eve of another visit by Mr. King, the press asked President Roosevelt what he and the Prime Minister expected to discuss. Was it by any chance a new St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty? The President waved this suggestion aside. The subjects of discussion, he declared expansively, would include ''North, Central and South America and the world in general...
...That if the all important social measures are now in jeopardy they were just as much so last June. Said Senator Wheeler: "The Democratic platform, dictated by the President himself, provided for meeting New Deal reforms by constitutional process. The conditions which exist in the Ohio River Valley and the Dust Bowl are identical with those which prevailed when the platform was adopted...
...lived in caves or on pillars, made friends of lions, jackals, converts of such sinners as the beauteous courtesan Thais. Over Egypt's sands last week trudged 300 policemen, mobilized by the Government to deal with 100 merry desert monks wrongfully occupying a monastery because they felt their social life was being repressed...
...less criminal among the city's unfortunates, listen to their stories, advise them. Last month she reached the Department's retiring age, 63, and found that the law made no provision for pensioning a policewoman. The Chronicle thereupon invited her to become its Director of Social Service, privately interview and assist readers with troubles more grave than the heart, publicly comment on their letters in a daily column...