Word: leftwards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Significance: Slight, except that it shows Canadians have not gone radical. The Liberals can be compared to pre-Roosevelt Democrats in the U. S., but just as President Roosevelt turned his party upside down once he gained the White House, so, as Premier, Mr. King must make sweeping leftward motions. His first reaction was to promise this week to set up a national commission to grapple with unemployment, spread public works. Cried...
...Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde, President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & North Western Lines, President Troy W. Appleby of Ohio National Life Insurance Co., Utility Lobbyist Hugh Stewart Magill, Banker Henry Samuel Henschen, and some 30 others. Good Methodists all, they were thoroughly alarmed over Methodism's leftward trend. They prepared a statement deploring substitution of "economic and social systems for the Christian ideal of individual responsibility and freedom of choice...
...years ago a New York East Conference voted a resolution which hesitantly questioned whether Capitalism should be replaced "with something more in conformity with our religion'' (TIME, May 29, 1933). Since then many an individual Methodist and a few conferences have continued to move leftward, without exhibiting anything more substantial than warm, pious discontent. Typical of the viewpoint of "Christian economy" was last week's report which critically covered everything conceivable from sharecroppers and Section 7a to William Randolph Hearst, and only became specific in recommending that pastors study the 90-year-old Rochdale consumers...
...When he said, "My heart bleeds for the Newspaper Guild," he really meant that he would like to see newspaper reporters get a better deal. But as Hearst's lawyer in the Call-Bulletin case, he considered the Guild a menace, fought it to a standstill, drove it Leftward toward trade unionism (TIME. Dec. 24). Twitted for defending bankers thrice in two years he explains: "The underdog needs friends. The bankers are so friendless now, even the politicians have courage to attack them...
...rich. In the U. S., decades ago, Methodists began preaching Prohibition, that great reform which was to save people from the brewers and saloonkeepers. Methodists also espoused labor's causes - collective bargaining, shorter hours, unemployment insurance- when to do so seemed downright radical. Today in the perceptible leftward swing of U. S. religion, Methodism as a whole has gone farther than any other single sect. Some recent examples...