Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aviatress, she has won scores of awards, set dozens of records, was the first woman to break through the sound barrier. During World War II she headed the women pilots' ferrying service, the WASPs. As Mrs. Floyd Odium she is a social leader, a world traveler, the friend of celebrities...
...considerable influence on the formulation of policy. He is blamed by Republican right-wingers for helping to keep the Administration on a progressive course. In this, Adams takes a practical view: he realizes that the Administration simply could not survive if it failed to support such institutions as social security, minimum wage, and essential federal aid to health and education. But at the operative level, Adams' power is sharply circumscribed, by both his own inclination and that of his boss. Once policy has been established-by the President in public and private pronouncements, by the Cabinet and National Security...
...more about each pupil as the child's mother. She must learn about his interests and his problems, check on whether he can follow directions, see that his sight and hearing are normal, observe how he reacts to his classmates and whether he is overly diffident in "social situations." Of 100 cases of reading disability, Paul Witty once found that 14% had defective vision, 12% were in poor health, 3% had poor hearing. But more important than these physical handicaps were the mental ones: lack of interest (82%), emotional conflicts (42%), unhappy homes...
...Plume. In Dayton, William H. Moone was brought to trial in a federal court on a forgery charge, accused by Plaintiff Lewis Wilson, who can neither read nor write, of signing his name on a Social Security check...
...folk schools through which most of the program operates, average 100 students There are 300 throughout Scandinavia, each determining its own program, but the major emphasis in all is history, literature and social sciences with particular emphasis on Scandinavian achievements in these fields...