Word: weal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year after Congress goes home, a few members remain to conduct Investigations, between-sessions sparring shows, in the big marble-pilastered caucus rooms of the House and Senate office buildings at Washington. The inquisitors are financed by their colleagues (out of the Treasury) to improve the public weal and make political capital. Above are the three main attractions scheduled for the dog days, the Dies show beginning this week...
...capable biceps. A meeting of 500 Protestant ministers and laymen gave enthusiastic endorsement to a League for Protestant Action. Among other things, the League announced its belief in the proposition that: "No group, whether racial, nationalistic or ecclesiastical, should be allowed to place its own interests above the public weal or to exercise a disproportionate control of public affairs...
Army Commander-in-Chief Adolf Hitler made public on the day of the market break a decree providing in detail for army billeting and requisitions in Germany in case of war. "The common weal takes precedence over all private gain," says this decree; army officers "may demand from any person subject to this law that he permit the use of objects he owns or holds for safe keeping, or that he transfer his rights to movable objects" such as automobiles or trucks. Payment for services required of civilians is to be made only "in so far as the services cannot...
...nearly two years the question of how subways in general could be improved artistically has been studied by a group of Manhattan artists. Some WPA and some not, but all members of the United American Artists, they believed that this extracurricular activity in the public weal would be their best argument for a Federal Bureau of Fine Arts. Last May the Union's Public Use of Arts Committee started preparing an exhibition of murals and sculpture for subways which last week opened at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Said the Museum's catalogue...
...Kirstein, vice-president of William Filene's Sons Company, received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Harvard in 1933, with the citation. "A power for good in his city, ever ready for effort in the public weal...