Word: blighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assessments for Politics. In Detroit's Masonic Temple Arizona's Goldwater addressed 1,010 Republicans on "the political blight that has come upon the state of Michigan," i.e., control of the Michigan Democratic Party by United Auto Workers' Boss Walter Reuther. "Underneath the Democrat label here in Michigan there is something new, and something dangerous-born of conspiracy and violence, sired by socialists and nurtured by the general treasury of the U.A.W.-C.I.O. This is the pattern of political conquest. This is the pattern of men whose conscienceless use of violence and money to achieve political power...
...major U.S. industries, none is more vulnerable to the bite of spiraling prices or the blight of softening business than the 114 Class 1 railroads, which carry roughly half of the nation's products and raw materials. Last week the railroads were caught in a dangerous vise, whose jaws were both inflation and deflation, whose effects make a case study for economists. From the headquarters of roads from Boston to San Francisco came gloomy news of a sharp setback in earnings: a 40% decline for the Pennsylvania, the nation's largest railroad, a 60% nose dive...
...trustee. Inevitably, too, she became a regent at the University of California, almost singlehanded rescued the foundering Hollywood Bowl concerts, collected civic committee chairmanships like baubles on a charm bracelet. It was she, says her husband, who steered the Times into its long war on the great Los Angeles blight: smog. "Buff and I were driving downtown one day in 1946," says Chandler, "and Buff's eyes started to stream. She looked at me and she said, 'O.K., Norm, when are you really going to do something about this?' So we went to work...
...Selwyn Lloyd announced that he was filing suit for divorce from his young (29) wife alleging adultery with one Martin Lubbock and bringing the Cabinet divorce rate to three times the national average. The story got front-page play, but no voice was raised to suggest that divorce would blight what is left of Lloyd's political career, which, observed Daily Express Columnist George Gale, "will blossom or perish according to his abilities and not according to his private life. Private disaster is at last private...
Control Evolution? How well has Denmark's plan worked? Kemp believes that it has reduced the blight of hereditary feeblemindedness by 50% or more. It will take generations, Kemp concedes, to prove that hereditary diseases are in fact reduced by genetic hygiene. But he is hopeful: "The time draws near when man to an increasing extent can control his own biological evolution...