Although a majority of distributism's later supporters were not Catholics and many were in fact former radical socialists who had become disillusioned with socialism ; distributist thought was adopted by the Catholic Worker Movement, conjoining it with the thought of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin concerning localized and independent communities.

Dorothy Day, for example, suggested abolishing legal enforcement of interest-rate contracts ( usury ).

Distributists such as Dorothy Day did not favor social security when it was introduced by the United States government.

While some distributists, such as Dorothy Day, have been anarchists, it should be remembered that most Chestertonian distributists are opposed to the mere concept of anarchism.

On the other hand, prominent distributists such as Dorothy Day and those involved in the Catholic Worker movement were / are strict pacifists even to the point of condemning involvement in the Second World War at much personal cost.

* Dorothy Day

*" Union Square Speech " by Dorothy Day

* 1897 – Dorothy Day, social activist ( d. 1980 )

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

* Dorothy Day co-founder of Catholic Worker Movement

Communitarianism has been traced back to early monasticism, but in the twentieth century began to be formulated as a philosophy by Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement.

* Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement

John has also influenced philosophers ( Jacques Maritain ), theologians ( Hans Urs von Balthasar ), pacifists ( Dorothy Day, Daniel Berrigan, and Philip Berrigan ) and artists ( Salvador Dalí ).

It was there that he met the legendary Catholic activist Dorothy Day.

Working with her Catholic Worker Movement, he began his commitment to social justice, and would one day go on to play Peter Maurin, cofounder of the Catholic Worker Movement, in Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story.

She was Dorothy Hilton in Call it a Day, again in both London and New York, from 1935 to 1936.

Other notable anarcho-pacifist historical figures include Ammon Hennacy, Dorothy Day and, for a brief period between 1939 and 1940, Jean-Paul Sartre.

* Dorothy Day – The Long Loneliness

Four songs from the album (" This Addiction ", " Dead On The Floor ", " Dine, Dine My Darling ", and " Dorothy ") were debuted on that tour with Saves the Day.

The year before their murder, the Bodenheims spent some time ( perhaps two months ) as guests of the Catholic Worker of Dorothy Day in New York.

* memoir of Max Bodenheim by Dorothy Day

A member of the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic from 1972 to 1975, Rigg took leading roles in premiere productions of two Tom Stoppard plays, Dorothy Moore in Jumpers ( National Theatre, 1972 ) and Ruth Carson in Night and Day ( Phoenix Theatre, 1978 ).

In 2011, the first International Dorothy Dunnett Day was announced by the Dorothy Dunnett Society to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Game of Kings.

** Dorothy Arzner, American film director ( b. 1897 )

; Dorothy Day: Dorothy Day ( 1897 – 1980 ) was a journalist turned social activist.

Mary Ford was born Iris Colleen Summers in El Monte, California, the second daughter of Marshall McKinley Summers ( born February 13, 1896 in Ridgway, Illinois ; died August 5, 1981 in Los Angeles, California ), a Nazarene minister, who later became a painting contractor, and his wife, Dorothy May White Summers ( born April 5, 1897 in Missouri ; died February 22, 1988 in South El Monte, California ), and was the sister of Byron Fletcher Summers ( born December 25, 1918 in Missouri ; died April 2, 1994 ), Esther Eva Summers Wootten ( born 1922 in Los Angeles, California ), and Bruce Wendell Summers ( born February 22, 1929 in California ; died November 15, 2007 ).

Dorothy Julia " Dodie " Pennebaker Brando ( February 7, 1897 – August 16, 1954 ) was the mother of Marlon Brando and among the members of the Omaha Community Playhouse's first cast.

Dorothy Arzner ( January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979 ) was an American film director.

Dorothy Howell was born in Chicago, the daughter of Edwin John Howell, Jr. ( 1897 – 1946 ), a Chicago firefighter, and Della Murray ( 1902 – 1960 ).

Dorothy Day, American Christian anarchism | Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifistDorothy Day, ( November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980 ) was an American journalist, social activist and devout Catholic convert ; she advocated the Catholic economic theory of distributism.

* 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a " long belt " of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

* 1947 – Dorothy Lyman, American actress

* 2010 – Dorothy Height, American civil rights activist ( b. 1912 )

* 1957 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer ( b. 1893 )

* 1980 – Four U. S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.

* 1910 – Dorothy Janis, American silent film actress ( d. 2010 )

* 1928 – Dorothy McGuire, American singer ( The McGuire Sisters )

* 1960 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress ( d. 1980 )

George Lucas was born in Modesto, California, the son of Dorothy Ellinore ( née Bomberger ) and George Walton Lucas, Sr. ( 1913 – 1991 ), who owned a stationery store.

* Dorothy Catherine of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1538 – 1604 ) married in 1556 Henry V of Plauen, Burgrave of Meissen.

As part of a 1929 – 1934 campaign, between 1930 and 1932, Dorothy Garrod excavated four caves, and a number of rock shelters, in the Carmel mountain range at el-Wad, el-Tabun, and Es Skhul.

* Dorothy Weisel Hack ( 1910 – 1963 ), American amateurtennis player

* 1967 – Dorothy Parker, American writer ( b. 1893 )

* 1925 – Dorothy Malone, American actress

* 1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author ( d. 1957 )

* 1913 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American journalist ( d. 1965 )

* 1903 – Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a ' motor race '.

* 1949 – Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.

* 1895 – Dorothy Wilde, English socialite ( d. 1941 )

* 1956 – Dorothy Hamill, American figure skater

* 1905 – Dorothy Fields, American composer ( d. 1974 )

Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on, to Dorothy ( née East ) Joplin ( 1913 – 1998 ), a registrar at a business college, and her husband, Seth Joplin ( 1910 – 1987 ), an engineer at Texaco.

* 1907 – Dorothy Young, American actress and novelist ( d. 2011 )