Word: leftward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PICKS ROAD OF LIBERALISM, and it seemed clearly apparent that the new court was following Earl Warren's signposts. This was the newest turn in as fast-moving a 20 years as the court has ever known-and some Washingtonians believed that it had taken the court farther leftward than at any time since Franklin Roosevelt's day. Roosevelt's most liberal court was built (from 1943 to 1946) around Justices Hugo Black, William Douglas, Frank Murphy and Wiley Rutledge. Chief Justice Fred Vinson edged President Harry Truman's Supreme Court back onto conservative paths. Replacing...
...fact that most of them were elected on a support-Eisenhower platform, the Old Guardsmen make a final point in their case: somehow or other, since 1956 Ike has "changed" because "they" (i.e., the "men around Eisenhower") persuaded the President to forsake his solid Republicanism in favor of a leftward course featuring such "giveaways" as school construction, health reinsurance and expanded foreign...
...that public, i.e., private, schools should be abolished, a step long advocated by Bevan. The conference also demanded abolition of all forms of race discrimination and segregation in Britain and her colonies, and laid down proposals for the eventual termination of British colonialism. In sum, the party, while veering leftward from the course set by Former Leader Clement Attlee, was still traveling to the right of its rugged radical...
...McCarthy to have been reviewed in the New York Times His subject was "The Liberal Mind," of which he probed three aspects: its inconsistency; its intolerance; and its contempt for facts and evidence. This, he said, is the kind of mind that dominates both political parties, from President Eisenhower leftward...
Hatoyama, with the help of the Liberals, has a clear majority to conduct the day-to-day business of governing. But he does not have the two-thirds majority necessary for changes in the constitution. A leftward swing in national sentiment chopped another 21 seats away from the Liberals and transferred them to the two Socialist groups. The Socialists differ on many issues (the left-wing group often runs close to the Communist line), but they emphatically agree in their opposition to Japanese rearmament. Counting miscellaneous left-wing Deputies (among them two Communists), the Socialists can block any amendment...