Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peace, Prosperity and Progress...
...instance, there are signs of a major shift in the big Negro vote-20% of the city's total. In 1952 it was Democratic, almost 7-3; this year it may split evenly between the parties. Reason for the possible shift: Maryland's steady civil-rights progress under Republican Governor Theodore McKeldin, Ike's personally encouraged desegregation of public facilities in nearby Washington. Civil rights is also challenging the bread-and-butter issues for the Negro's political attention in such cities as St. Louis, Cleveland and San Francisco...
...retained in a coalition ministry, but only if they would go along with the peoples' delegates on this vital issue. Abramson, Scher, Brachman, and Hofeld must dominate this new ministry; they must not be the unwilling dupes of a rejuvenated and rampant conservatism. The more outspoken critics of progress (and they whom we mean) would have to be purged, and perhaps even exiled to Peterbourough...
President Eisenhower has come to grips with some issues in foreign affairs, but he has made few advances over his Democratic predecessor. He has accepted the containment policy; he has tried, but failed, to make progress on disarmament; he has continued the economic aid program; and he has put forth an encouraging atoms-for-peace plan that, while it is just barely getting off the ground, is an imaginative response to the world's desire for rapid economic progress. But the President's foreign policy cannot be separated from that of his Secretary of State, and here the past four...
Senator Case predicted that President Eisenhower would be re-elected. The people, he said, have a deep trust in him, based upon his support of America's three guiding principles: a classless society, the necessity and desirability of progress, and a religious tradition...