Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rummy with his wife-secretary, Ettie, or sat with her on the Washington Hotel roof, his belt loosened, his high-laced shoes cocked on the railing, deliberately picking his teeth and yawning. Never later than 9:30 p. m. he is in bed, barring only one or two top social functions of the year...
Success in the first three experimental cities (Rochester, Dayton, Seattle) where the plan has pleased grocers, bankers, reliefers, farmers and social welfare workers, apparently has led FSCC to contemplate extension of the plan to 100 more cities...
Anna E. King became a social worker as a sideline; her real job was writing advertising copy for a paint & varnish company in Cleveland. When the nuns of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, where she helped to look after delinquent girls, told her they needed a fulltime, trained assistant, she quit her job, went to Western Reserve University, took her M.Sc. in applied social sciences in 1926. After three years at the convent she became supervisor of the Children's Bureau in Cleveland, joined the faculty of Western Reserve in 1929. In 1934 she went to New York...
...women, no woman had ever before been named to such a high administrative post in a Jesuit college. But to Fordham's president, the Rev. Robert I. Gannon, Miss King's promotion was "logical," since Fordham has more than 3,000 women students, and in the social service school they outnumber men two to one. Founded in 1916, the School of Social Service is now a fulltime, professional graduate school to which only holders of bachelors' degrees are admitted for the two-year course. Its campus is the eighth floor of Manhattan's Woolworth Building...
Believing that 50% of young people are intellectually unprepared for marriage, 20% financially unready, Father Roy put his Jocist candidates through exhaustive preparation, weeded them from 400 to 105 couples. The chosen ones he sent to lectures, both in mixed and segregated groups, on the medical, economic, social and ethical aspects of marriage. After the weddings, Father Roy hoped that many of the couples would postpone honeymooning for three months, rather than get acquainted in a hotel room. Average age of the men-all of them employed at around $25 a week-was 26, of the women, who were...