Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That would mean air-tight controls on all wages and prices; across-the-board rationing; higher taxes for everyone; no Government spending on such luxuries as social legislation. That would bring lower prices at the corner grocery. It would also mean lower wages, lower profits, and lower farm income. Whether or not the U.S. people were willing to swallow such bitter medicine, neither political party would'dare prescribe it in an election year...
...large-scale relief projects. "Furthermore," said one, "the government won't organize a large enemy fifth column, which the return of some of these Arabs would obviously create . . . The ones who are pressing for their return are Arab states who . . . want to be rid of the economic and social problem they have created...
Arpad Szakasits was given the presidency of Hungary as his reward for keeping the Social Democratic Party on the same Red line down which Tildy had marched the Smallholders. A month ago Arpad obligingly merged his Social Democrats with the Communists into a new Hungarian Workers Party. Over on Szabadsag Ter, the bettors could open a new set of books...
...irregular series of documentaries produced by ABC, all under the supervision of Saudek. Others so far: Schoolteacher-1047 (in three parts) on public education; Slums (in two parts) on substandard housing; 1960? Jiminy Cricket, on America's future needs and resources; and VD, on the problem of social diseases. Saudek's next for ABC: The Marshall Plan, a ¹½hour television documentary scheduled for fall. Says Saudek: "I hope it will be completely compelling...
Nine out of ten Americans who have read these and other shock-slogans of fund-raising campaigns have felt the desired shiver. The tenth, who did not, was Albert Deutsch. Mr. Deutsch, who writes a medical and social welfare column in the New York Star, finally felt annoyed. Wrote Deutsch last week: "When the whole grim truth is told, one out of every one of us dies. Period. I am disturbed by the sustained note of terror in the slogans constantly tossed at us by worthy health organizations in efforts to pry loose . . . enough dollars to fight effectively some particular...