Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Common wisecrack of super-cynical Russian Bolsheviks is: Russki muzhik vsyo zuplatit-the Russian peasant will pay for everything. Last week it looked as if workers and peasants both were going to pay as the Kremlin cracked down on labor, banned all party, trade union and social meetings during the workday, frankly stated it meant to get less "chatter" and more work out of workers. Thus ended one more visible manifestation of Russian proletarianism...
Last week, as Congress discussed changes in the old-age provisions of the Social Security Act (TIME, June 5), U. S. doctors also turned their attention to old folks. Attention-turner was Problems of Ageing,* technical tome on what is technically called geriatrics, which contains the scholarly opinions of 25 experts on the medical and psychological problems of old age. First bang-up work on geriatrics ever published, the book contains an introduction by 79-year-old John Dewey, lengthy articles by such famous scientists as Physiologists Anton Julius Carlson of University of Chicago, Walter Bradford Cannon of Harvard, Nutritionist...
Reported last week by Chairman Bob Doughton's House Ways & Means Committee were Administration amendments to the Social Security Act. Their prime object was to scuttle the illusory "full reserve" ($47,000.000,000 by 1980) planned for Social Security insurance for the aged, try for a collect-as-you-pay system by upping immediate Federal contributions, reducing intake from payroll taxes. Recommended changes...
...half filled with celebrities, half with celebrity-chasers, offering Lucullan food but not even the twang of a guitar, is Jack & Charlie's legendary "21." After midnight, debs, young Roosevelts, Beatrice Lillie, Tallulah Bankhead, lesser fry, haunt Sherman Billingsley's cool, decorative Stork Club. More on the Social Register side, less on the Who's Who, and both hard on the purse, are pugnacious John Perona's zebra-striped, rhumba-flavored El Morocco, the newer and elegant Fefe's Monte Carlo...
...seeks the true faith in vain in a factory, among the Communists, in an affair with a psychiatrist. Salvation comes when she meets David Markand, hero of Author Frank's last novel and Mary's New-Adam counterpart. Through her love for him, plus a beyond-Communism social faith, she finds new symbols for her long-lost religious faith...