Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both have taken the road to overt political action as advocates of the Popular Front in Great Britain. Will the bond finally snap? Or will it be repaired and will the three be joined again as the triumvirate of English poetry searching for "new country" of political and social experiment as well as of literary discipleship to masters like G. M. Hopkins, Yeats, and Eliot...
...Court which gave Canada's "New Deal" a tentative scrapping last spring (TIME, June 29). As was then stressed, Canada's unconstitutional NPMA (Natural Products Marketing Act) was similar but less inclusive than the unconstitutional NRA south of the border; but Canada's unconstitutional ESIA (Employment & Social Insurance Act) was not so much an imitation of Washington's Social Security as of the (in England) perfectly constitutional "Dole." The Canadian Supreme Court last summer and the Privy Council last week both held constitutional and valid the FCAA (Farmers' Creditors Arrangement Act). The uncertain character...
...Walter Gropius was appointed director of the rather stodgy Grand Ducal Art School at Weimar. He attracted a group of young students interested in functional, non-eclectic building design and in the economic, social and philosophical ideas that went with it. Early Nazi activity in Weimar made the town too hot for him; in 1925 Director Gropius was glad when the city of Dessau offered funds and a site for a long, barrack-like dormitory and school building which Gropius called the Bauhaus (Building House...
...people of the village are very much interested in anybody who is 'lawing it.' . . . I had a large case recently before a justice of the peace and jury of six, in which I earned $10. The trial was held at 8 p. m. in the social room of the local fire house. My client was suing for $6.50 damages ... to his automobile. At least 100 spectators were present. [A city lawyer and I] fought our case amid boos and cheers from the audience until 11 p. m. The jury brought in a verdict for $3.50 in favor...
...Socially, because the often illusive picture of high profits which they present causes social unrest...