Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill rejects the automatic-dole principle, tailors pension payments to fit the needs of individual veterans in an age of higher social security and private pensions. Key new principle: a "graduated scale" that turns the pension into a supplemental payment, brings each pensioner's annual income (including social security) from all sources to the $1,400 minimum, higher if he has dependents. A single veteran with an annual income of $1,300 would get only $10 a month in pension; a married veteran with two children and only $1,200 income would get $90 a month more...
Families of patients who have been in mental hospitals for a long time usually do not want them home, says Charles L. Rose in Mental Hygiene. On the social service staff of the VA Hospital in Bedford, Mass., Rose found from a survey that many relatives do not expect the hospital to effect a cure and really do not want it to-they regard it as a place of detention, not healing. They are more comfortable feeling that the case is hopeless: if the patient never improves, he can never be sent home where "there is no room...
Most of the converts were Hakkas, members of an outsider ethnic group to which Hung himself belonged. Social scientists might call them havenots; Toynbee would call them an internal proletariat. What with famine poverty, and the corruption of the Manchus, the Hakkas were ripe for revolt...
...Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, by Angus Wilson. An English widow sentenced under the law of diminishing returns to social work, the company of Angry Young Men, and bohemian...
...Department accepts an "enormous" number of Sophomore transfer students each year, Pettigrew pointed out. These people "do very well," but would be better off if they were advised about Social Relations during the Freshman year, he asserted...