Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entirely to Harvard. "It's more that I'm a full-time servant to the public. I look out for the little fellows' rights. And they vote for me." The mayor explained that when a retired old widow calls him and want to know where her social security check is, he sends his red Mercury station wagon after her, drives her down to the appropriate bureau, and straightens the matter out. Then he drives her back home. "You know, after that she'll vote...
Eight new spring term courses--three in English, two in history, one in government, one in social relations and one in Semitics--will be offered to undergraduates at registration...
...Social Relations Department will present a study of functionalism entitled "The Recent History of Sociological Theory," Social Relations 113. In the Semitics Department, Semitics 166A, the new spring term course, will deal with "The Emergence of the State of Israel: Jewish Nationalism...
Circulating in Latin American capitals last week was a gloomy report labeled "For Governments Only." Subject: coffee. Gist of the document, drafted by an Inter-American Economic and Social Council committee: a growing surplus threatens to bring a disastrous slump in world coffee prices unless the governments concerned take drastic action...
...board. Brought in by the House of Morgan in 1927 to scurf the accumulated rust off the company management, Lawyer Taylor, a recognized troubleshooter, did two important jobs for Big Steel. He reorganized its finances to weather the Depression, a decade later reorganized its labor policy to weather the social tides of the New Deal. In 1927-29 Taylor paid off $340 million on the company's bonded indebtedness so that when the crash came the company was financially secure. In 1937 he broke with the antilabor, coal-and-iron police tradition of Founder Elbert Gary, became the first...