Word: fabianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maintain friendly relations with Germany: last week it suppressed ten newspapers which had printed documented accounts of German concentration-camp brutalities in Norway. An Army of 30 highly trained divisions, under General Ivar Holmquist, is tough and ready after winter exercises. The trim little Swedish Navy under Vice Admiral Fabian Tamm was on the alert. But the suspense was painful...
Last week President de la Guardia an nounced that twelve prominent politicians had been arrested for plotting against the peace of the nation. The leaders were Antonio Anguizola, wealthy ranch owner, and Fabian Velarde, Panama's No. 1 criminal lawyer...
Post-war liberals will find in Harold Rugg's awakening a nostalgic flavor. Greenwich Village, Walter Lippmann's New Republic and Sinclair Lewis were in their heyday, corsets were coming off and speakeasies coming in. Rugg discovered Isadora Duncan, the Fabian Society, John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, the "new historians," notably Charles A. Beard. Aroused by such "frontier thinkers," Rugg decided that education needed frontier thinking too, helped launch the famed Teachers College group. For some ten years this group-Professors Rugg, William H. Kilpatrick, George S. Counts, Jesse H. NewIon, Goodwin Watson, et al.-held bimonthly discussions...
Obviously uncensored, the report (Evacuation Survey, George Routledge & Sons Ltd., London) was compiled by the Fabian Society, edited by its young Research Editor Richard Padley and Margaret Cole, wife and collaborator of famed Laborite economist and detective-story writer G. D. H. Cole...