Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Truman remedies for shortcomings were: a prepaid medical-insurance program; federal aid to schools; the Truman civil-rights program. He also asked for universal military training, broadening of social security, extension of reciprocal trade treaties for three years. He wanted repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and re-enactment of the Wagner Act with some "improvements" such as a ban on jurisdictional strikes. Then he called for new taxes to raise $4 billion in additional revenues and five days later sent along a 1,400-page budget to explain it. He no longer advocated, as he had last year...
Some observers, reading the Truman messages, saw the U.S. rushing straight into a "social-welfare state," saw it as a not too roundabout way to socialism. The Manchester Guardian, which sees socialism at first hand every day, thought that the U.S., as an alternative to socialism, was heading toward an "insurance state," i.e., "deliberate shortening of the odds against the weak but without abandoning the individualist way of life...
Domestic Affairs. $6.2 billion for old-line Government agencies (agriculture, labor, etc.), $2.4 billion for social welfare, $5.5 billion for veterans, $5.4 billion interest on the $252 billion debt...
...Including $1.7 billion more in payroll deductions for increased social security...
...summer seminars on political, economic, and social conditions in Europe will open to University members this July. New York's New School for Social Research and San Francisco State College announced yesterday...