Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time looking for a Croesus who could afford to keep them open. After all, the places were assessed for $2,100,000, and taxes were $62,000 a year. Instead, the corporation turned over both mansions, on a 21-year rent-free lease, to the New York School of Social Work of Columbia University. The big kitchen would be turned into a cafeteria, and the art gallery into a lecture hall...
...struggle, he declared boldly, was against the "false philosophy" of Communism. It was a philosophy which replaced freedom and justice with "deceit and mockery, poverty and tyranny," which taught that social wrongs could be corrected only by violence, which believed in the long run that war was inevitable. Said the President: "The actions resulting from the Communist philosophy are a threat to the efforts of free nations to bring about world recovery and lasting peace...
They charged that blue-ribbon juries were "superior" citizens, chosen from such lists as college directories and the Social Register. They maintained that Jews and Negroes were "systematically excluded." Jurymen had to have $250 in real property. The Reds' lawyers argued that their clients all fell "within the classes discriminated against": Henry Winston and City Councilman Benjamin Davis were Negroes. The others had been "workers": Irving Potash was a furrier; Robert Thompson, a machinist; Gus Hall, a lumberjack; John Williamson, a patternmaker; Gilbert Green, a metalworker; Carl Winter, a draftsman; Jack Stachel, a capmaker; John Gates, now an editor...
...Venezuelan junta's problems. Just a week after the junta used tear gas to break up a student demonstration at Caracas' Central University, it countered a sudden oil workers' strike in the state of Zulia by jailing union leaders and threatening strikers with loss of social-security benefits. Foreign observers wondered if the walkout was a dress rehearsal for more serious trouble...
...author of You're the Top-which inspired a sort of national cult of memorizers and parodists in 1934-always turns out lyrics that are distinctly his own. They brim with stylish grace and colloquial impudence, real comic invention, multisyllabic rhymes, innuendoes about I'amour, digs at social foibles, and easy allusions to famous people and far-off places...