Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neil is one of the younger directors of the latest crusading organization for an American Utopia; he first saw the "light" sometime before the turn of the century. One of the objectives of the movement is to "combat and defeat all un-American movements" which O'Neil considers mainly as consisting of Communism and Fascism, but which he believes includes most youth organizations today...
...Tory aristocrats. His limitations came from the fact that he identified "material progress" with social heaven. His real genius lay in his power of blunt statement -a talent that would have taken him far in journalism today. "An acre in Middlesex," said he, "is better than a principality in Utopia...
Unabashed seekers for self-improvement are literary societies for Negroes in San Antonio-the Utopia Club. Elizabeth Prophet Club, Hotel Men's Wives Club, etc.-which solemnly discuss books by Negroes, an occasional novel like Gone With the Wind, in which Negroes appear...
...Club). Its members, 24 boys, nine girls, all wore a uniform of black shirt, black breeches and black boots. Male members also were expected to grow mustaches. Meeting in members' houses, they discussed sex, atheism and a program they distilled from Plato, Aristotle and Edward Bellamy's Utopia. Specific points in their program: less restrictive marriage laws, more sex education, a plan (a kind of first cousin to "Thirty Dollars Every Thursday") to give everybody cash certificates to be spent within a year. The group also had rifle-shooting practice to develop members' "individual qualities and reliance...
...over 50 is the golden promise which fortnight ago won Sheridan Downey the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate over Senator William G. McAdoo. The scheme would add an estimated $1,315,766,400 to the State budget. How Californian capital cottons to this benign idea of legislating Utopia became apparent last week when California offered for sale for unemployment relief $2,000,000 worth of registered warrants payable in February. Such State borrowings as recently as August 12 were easily sold at .75%. Last week there was but one bid, from Bankamerica...