Word: fabians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Larkin and Rothauff took the negative, warning that nationalization is the beginning of Fabian socialism...
...became a professor at the London School of Economics, where he fell gradually under the spell of Fabian Socialists. He joined the British Labor Party. Laski still professed his fear of the state and of any centralization of authority, but he came to believe that only a Socialist government could destroy capitalism and pave the way for a genuine free society, which was just about where Karl Marx had stood. When his espousal of Socialism brought him the title of "the Red Professor," Laski retorted: "The devil [i.e., Laski] is not as red as he is painted. His evil-minded...
...World War I, young Socialist Attlee worked with Sidney and Beatrice Webb for the repeal of the Poor Law, lectured at Ruskin College, Oxford, on trade unionism and trade-union law, and later on social science at the London School of Economics. He became a member of the Fabian Society and of the Independent Labor Party...
Right after lunch is the best time for portraits of important men, famed Portrait Photographers Fabian and Bradford Bachrach told the New York Herald Tribune's Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg. One of the Bachrachs' most difficult subjects, they said, was Thomas E. Dewey. The toughest of all was the late Rorello La Guardia, who "would never sit still." They recalled their favorite "trick"-on overworked President Herbert Hoover at the start of the 1932 presidential campaign. He was too tired to sit erect when he came in for the sitting: "We stacked seven books in a chair...