Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Social Security Board announced that for 30,165,694 U. S. wage earners on its rolls during 1937 average pay was $890 a year. Also last week, the House Ways & Means Committee published the names and salaries of some 50,000 wage earners who brought up that average by drawing $15,000 or more from their employers during 1937. It was the longest list the Committee has released since the practice was instituted in 1936. It was also the last of its kind, since the 1938 tax bill upped the publicity requirement to exclude salaries under...
...London, Alice Thistle bought a coat, was 1) puzzled, 2) dismayed, 3) appalled by its pungent odor. Said she: "I suffered social embarrassment." Said her mother: "She sits and broods for hours." Said a doctor: "She is on the verge of a complete mental breakdown." Reason: When the coat was sent to the cleaners, a dead mouse was extracted from the collar...
...Their occupational diseases are rickets, pellagra, dysentery, typhoid, pneumonia, starvation, sullen hatred exploding periodically in bloody strikes. Old American stock, they are mostly refugee sharecroppers from the Dust Bowl of the Southwest and Midwest. They are called the "Oakies." There are 250,000 of them-a leading U. S. social problem, and participants in one of the grimmest migrations of history...
Between chapters Author Steinbeck speaks directly to the reader in panoramic essays on the social significance of the Oakies' story. Burning tracts in themselves, they are not a successful fiction experiment. In them a "social awareness" outruns artistic skill. Steinbeck is a writer, still, of great promise. But this novel's big audience of readers will likely find in it one of the most impassioned and exciting books of the year...
...Will Destroy 'Social Fabric...