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John Parker, Labor Member of Parliament and vice-chairman of the Fabian Society, will speak on "British Labor In Power" tonight at 8 p.m. in the Eliot Junior Common Room. The talk is under the sponsorship of the society For Industrial Democracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fabian MP Talks On British Labor Tonight in Eliot | 11/4/1948 | See Source »

...Fabian. In Lima, Peru, spry, 100-year-old Juana Rosa Arnaiz explained her secret of longevity: "I never hurry, am late for everything. I was breast-fed until eight years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 26, 1948 | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...want to substitute the greater evil of his proletarian dictatorship. They were the backbone (if backbone it had) of Social Democracy. They were perhaps best epitomized by Sidney Webb, later Lord Passfield. He and his wife Beatrice loved the bicycle, and untiringly cycled about the business of their Fabian Society; once they pedaled 40 miles to Cardiff to attend a trade union congress. They believed not in the inevitability of revolution but in the "inevitability of gradualness," i.e., in a steady bicycle ride toward socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Dr. Crankley's Children | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...less time than it takes to say Emmeline Pankhurst, Rebecca West was in London writing literary criticism on the Freewoman's staff. A year later she was a full-fledged political writer on the old Socialist Clarion, and a member of that Socialist intellectual advance guard, the Fabian Society. Its pundits, Sidney & Beatrice Webb, had her in for dinner, but "I argued with the Webbs, so I was never invited back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circles of Perdition | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...12th Century, had been known as champions of the underdog. Stafford's aunt, Beatrice Webb (a sister of Cripps's mother), helped turn the youthful instinct for social justice toward formal socialism. Cripps was born in 1889, the year Uncle Sidney and Aunt Beatrice published the famous Fabian Essays in Socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Government by Governess | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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