Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe in the Social Security Act. I believe in old-age pensions. I think we have to deal that way with many things. I believe in the National Youth Administration, never as a fundamental answer, but simply as something which gives hope, which gives perhaps a suggestion which might be followed by communities; never because the Federal Government could answer the whole problem of the unemployment of youth by a Youth Administration or WPA. It can't be done. These are stopgaps. We bought ourselves time to think. That is what we have done...
...name of the Hopkins act was Restoring Business Confidence. Nothing quite like it had ever been staged under New Deal management. Heretofore Franklin Roosevelt's morsels of encouragement to Private Profit had been tossed out as asides in speeches which concentrated on the New Deal's grander social objectives. Even the famed "breathing spell" of 1935 came only in answer to a letter from a publisher.* Now, Depression and an election having intervened, the fairest-haired lieutenant of the whole New Deal was being sent out to effect Recovery through the strange and unfamiliar medium of Business itself...
...mitigate those which give businessmen a "what's-the-use" attitude. The Administration's tax man in the House, Chairman Bob Doughton of Ways & Means, echoed Mr. Morgenthau. At a meeting of Senate committee heads, Chairman Pat Harrison of Finance, arch foe of the Administration's social-control tax theories, was permitted to cry a truce on all legislation unsettling to Business. Secretary of War Woodring even made a speech last week in which he deplored "spending and taxing," apologized that spending was necessary "because we are not prepared to face the graver alternative -depression and chaos...
Experimentation with broadcasting technique and research problems, will be the main fields covered by the Social Science division of the new Harvard Radio Workshop, Lawrence I. Radway '40, chairman of the committee announced last night...
...Professor Langer characterized the new book, which was prepared from a rare first edition. Roynal and Hitchcock, the publishers, arranged for the money from the sale of "Germany's Bible" to be given to John Chamborlain of Harper's Magazine, and Alvin Johnson, director of the New School of Social Research. These men will arrange for the disposal of the money in connection with the Refugee Fund...