Word: fabianism
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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...
Perhaps one way would be to form, within its ranks, organized political factions, each committed to a unified program and philosophy. Two such groups might be Fabian socialists or "gradualists," and "New Deal liberals." Such a plan would clarify the relations of the various groups in the Student Union, and enable them to work out a common denominator of belief and action on which all would be agreed. The present sub rosa factional fights would largely disappear, and policy would be fought out openly on "party" lines. The suspicion that the H.S.U. is illicitly dominated by a minority group would...