Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the most helpful nonadministrative group connected with the educative process on the college campus today are the fraternities. By fostering school spirit, extracurricular activities and social functions, they help develop latent qualities of leadership and help broaden students' personalities...
...made a few specific promises: an increased minimum wage, broadened and increased social-security benefits, a strengthened Department of Labor, vigorous antitrust enforcement, action to "break the log jam in housing" and to halt "soaring prices." But he left labor still wondering what Taft-Hartley changes, if any, he would propose. Said Dewey: "The new law is not perfect. No law, or any other human handiwork is perfect. It can always be improved and wherever and whenever it needs change it will be changed...
...simple Eskimo, best known for igloos and blubber-eating, may have been a bearer of culture to the New World. The Eskimos, says Curator Helge Larsen of Denmark's National Museum, once had a highly developed art, religion and social system. Perhaps they passed on a little of their culture before they lost...
...never lost the common touch. He became a socialist by 1906, when socialists were rare. In World War I, to his own vast amusement, he was put on a list of dangerous people compiled by Scotland Yard. In 1942, after he had led the Malvern Conference with its sweeping social program, Cartoonist David Low (no lover of prelates) drew him as a Samaritan among the super-godly...
...because his abilities simply could not be ignored. Those who doubted his rise to Primate thought he would be Prime Minister instead. An Oxford don at 22 after a double First, he became a headmaster at 28, bishop at 39, archbishop at 47, and the sparkplug of so many social, educational and spiritual reforms that his sudden death at 63 took away a man uniquely fitted to give religious leadership in the crucial first decade after World...