Word: socializing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator of the week. What brought him to his feet was the bill to give the President a raise. "There is entirely too much high living in Washington," he said. He saw a trend, reflected in the President's increased expense account, "resulting in an overemphasis of the social aspects of government service . . . Cocktail parties that cost from $500 to $1,000 should not be considered as being a necessary expense or social obligation of ... public office in this country . . .What Washington D.C. needs is some simple living...
Back in Paris, he became a bigwig at the Scientific Institute of Economic and Social Research, a writer on economics for Léon Blum's Socialist paper, Le Populaire. In 1941 he escaped from occupied France and joined Charles de Gaulle in London. The Free French sent him to wartime Washington where he was the right-hand man of famed Economic Planner Jean Monnet in the French Economic Mission, later headed the French Purchasing Commission. Although a Socialist, Marjolin does not believe in spreading socialism indiscriminately over Europe; he favors letting private enterprise alone where it works well...
Active for many years in social service work in Boston, Burr was also a Trustee of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Athenaeum. He was a director of the investment firm of Coffin and Burr...
That information is one result of a poll conducted this month among Social Relations 1 students at both colleges. The poll indicates that the average Harvard man and Radcliffe girl each hope to have four children. Since sixty percent of all Radcliffe girls marry Harvard men, it's a good thing...
Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology, made the survey to see how social and financial background affect a student's future hopes and outlooks. He intends to compare the results with surveys in other countries and cultures...