Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been given to labor's claim that it was fighting a sinister capitalist plot to destroy unions and break up the American system. Labor's charge that industry could and would sit on its haunches all year taking its profit from the "carryback" provisions of the tax law, was also shaken...
...Nenni's embryonic International could expect a blast from the other side too. The Communists seemed ready to hurl their inevitable charge of a capitalist plot to form an anti-Soviet western bloc. When a reporter for Moscow's Tass News Agency asked Léon Blum whether he really wanted to resurrect the Second International, Blum replied he did not understand the question. The Tassman rushed from the room, in a huff, slamming the door...
...frequent occasions, Canadians damn him roundly, call him timid and dull, scoff at him, invent bad jokes about him. But on polling day they vote for him. They feel he is good for Canada. Said one Ontario capitalist just before last June's elections: "If you had a salesman who had no personality but he brought in the orders, you'd keep him. I think we ought to keep...
...atom was not Clement Attlee's sole concern. He also wanted to get on better terms with Harry Truman and convince the capitalist U.S. that socialist Britain could be a good and useful friend -especially if Communist Russia turned out to be no friend at all. In both endeavors, he made some progress...
...Plenty." The Soviet Government, which considers music as serious a subject as farming or factory work, has made high-grade musical composition a paying proposition. Soviet composers today are counted not only among the most respected but among the wealthiest citizens of the Soviet Union. Prokofiev, like a cautious capitalist, says of his income: "It is plenty...