Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enumeration of the Communists in the U. S. is set forth by the American Labor Year Book issued last week by the Rand School of Social Science, radical institution of Manhattan. The number of members of the Workers' party, which is the Communist organization, is 16,325. [In 1924, there were 17,389.] Of this number 2,282 speak English. The party's foreign language auxiliaries include 6,410 Finns, 1,447 Jews, 1,109 southern Slavs...
Last winter appeared an "elegant" Florida ad. Crested and sealed and flaunting many a name in the social register, even in the Almanack de Gotha, it heralded the establishment of the Floranada Club close to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. " . . . Background counts as much as money . . . society . . . has decided to have a new playground . . . impeccable social and financial powers" (TIME, Feb. 1). But such suggestions were not sufficient to make Floranada a financial success., Last week its backers, the American-British Improvement Corp. filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, claiming assets of $2,551,518.58, liabilities...
...Cleveland went social servants of all ages, sizes, colors, creeds, and of both sexes, to the round number of 5,000. They represented the National Federation of Settlements, the National Probation Association, the National Association of Travelers Aid Societies, the National Conference of Jewish Social Service, the National Conference on Social Service of the Episcopal Church, the International Association of Policewomen, and scores and scores of others. They swarmed in Cleveland's public meeting places and hotels, coming together after a series of individual meetings as the National Conference of Social Work, "largest convention of its kind in history...
...word, the American college is no longer a college in the old sense of the word. It is a great social organization operating most powerfully in a democracy, where class lines are not yet strictly drawn, and where vast numbers of the people possess leisure. The professor may grumble about it, he may actively oppose it, but he will accommodate himself to the situation as the facts become clear: and he will be all the better for the change...
...college professors who organized the league to enforce peace have consciously or unconsciously fostered in every American college definite political organizations whose aim is similar to their own. Professors with strong proclivities toward social sympathy with the downtrodden have, by close association, fostered the development of strike leaders. Thus the professors themselves, so far as they have recognized their own trend in the student's leisure day, so far as they have applied their own knowledge to current problems, have produced the student movement of our time. This is recognized by the supporters of the unchanged order or things...