Word: socio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trustees, but there is a strong possibility that other than purely literary matter may be recommended for its pages, which increasingly up until the last issue had been devoted only to short stories, poems, and other creative material. Some well-defined sentiment exists for the inclusion of political or socio-economic material in the new Advocate, and this feeling has at least unofficial backing from University Hall...
Died. John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, 62, Great Britain's most brilliant socio-political economist and monetary expert, a principal architect of the Bretton Woods Plan; of a heart attack; in Firle, Sussex (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Farm Security Administration had lent five substantial Valley farmers and businessmen $1,226,350 (payable in 50 years) to buy 26,000 neglected acres of the local delta orchard land. These salaryless "directors" were going to operate the tract on an "altruistic, nonprofit" basis, as a kind of socio-economic experiment...
...economics experts last September presented-and had approved by the Bolivian Congress-a draft of socio-economic proposals intended to raise living standards for Bolivians. The hopes that it provoked among the Indians added fuel to the flames of their dissatisfaction. Nazi agents, working on susceptible labor leaders, added their touch to the unrest. At the same time the Nazis urged the Government to take a firm attitude...
Franklin Roosevelt's anti-inflation program produced a neat socio-political paradox last week. It turned out that the New Deal had taken control over all wages and salaries in the land, had set a $25,000 ceiling on earned income-but had let the nation's coupon clippers go scot free. It was enough to make a New Dealer weep...