Word: pamphlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After mulling it over, Norman Thomas, 68, six-time presidential candidate of the Socialist Party in the U.S., outlined a new policy for American Socialists. Wrote he, in a pamphlet called Democratic Socialism-A New Appraisal: "The working class is not the Messiah which some of us thought." Socialists must not press state ownership too far, since "the state under the most democratic theory and practice will become too huge, too cumbersome . . . A completely noncompetitive society would be dull and stagnant . . . Socialism should try to stress competition for the laurel wreath rather than the sack of gold . . . But it should...
...Boer War. "I hope the Boers will win the war," he concluded, "for the Boers are in the right and the British in the wrong." Grandfather John W. Foster (Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison) proudly had the work published, and to this day the 31-page pamphlet resides in some of the best U.S. libraries...
...result of its troubles, the subcommittee resorted to some tactics which the foes of Joe McCarthy so thoroughly deplore: its report leaned heavily on insinuation and innuendo. First it rattled some old skeletons, e.g., whether McCarthy should have accepted $10,000 from the RFC-supported Lustron Corp. for a pamphlet on housing which he wrote while serving on Senate committees dealing with RFC and Lustron problems. Then it raised some questions about McCarthy's fascinating finances but did not provide clear answers. Some items...
Research, too, is an important function. Every man who has the ill-fortune to collapse with mononucleosis (62 in '51) gets Dr. Andrew Contratto's pamphlet on the disease as part of his Stillman reading-matter. Mono was unknown here until twenty years ago when laboratory blood tests began showing a startling breakdown of white blood corpusles, among other things...
...approach to the period by asserting in his lectures that the negro had not sought freedom." Asked by the Boston Globe to comment on the charges, Buck replied: "I am grateful as a teacher to find students interested to do the extra work in the preparation of such a pamphlet (the Marxist attack ran five, closely-typed pages.) Then somewhat typically, he added: "I should like to go on record as a liberal in expressing honest pleasure that Harvard students feel perfectly free to differ with their instructors...