Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...change, and how the union men also changed when he told them he was sorry for his past dictatorial attitude. He was followed by a union organizer from the same department, who testified that he had been a militant Communist for 28 years and had thought it 'a capitalist, stunt' when the manager faced him with kindness, but had been changed by the power of the manager's spirit. . . . I noticed that none of them made mention of ... Christian doctrine...
...Brazil is being ruled by a capitalist democracy comfortably installed in life," said the ex-Dictator, and the "old liberal capitalist democracy is in rapid decline." But there was another way: "Socialist democracy." "To that I belong," he added. "For this I will fight on behalf of the people...
Katherine St. George, glib, chic, greying first cousin to F.D.R. and first-string hostess in New York's fashionable Tuxedo Park; business and G.O.P. committeewoman who worked like a piston on her campaign and announced that one of her goals was to "have every union member a capitalist." She had the backing of Ham Fish, for what it was worth. Republican St. George will be one of two new women in the House.* The other: Democrat Georgia Lusk, first woman ever to be elected to Congress from New Mexico...
...When I say "Europe" I mean, of course, not the geographical but the cultural entity. I mean the liberal civilization that emerged out of the Renaissance, emancipating the political force that succeeded the provincialism of feudalism and the mechanism of world markets and rising living standards that were the capitalist contribution to that elusive achievement called progress...
...Meanwhile the same concessions increase the boldness and the strength of the dictatorship until a point is reached when it thinks it can wage a successful war. The Russians are the more liable to overestimate their strength at some point because they underestimate the residual health of the democratic-capitalist world in much the same fashion as Hitler did, being fooled as he was by their own propaganda and the inability of a dictator's minions to tell him the truth...