Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cooking, painting, knitting, and sports classes for all ages also call for leaders. One Radcliffe girl is directing a choral group of singers from the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital. Miss Heaton terms settlement house work as a "tremendous opportunity for Social Relations majors, or anyone else interested in people...
Speaking on "Health and Social Security" in the meeting at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Fishbein stated that establishment of a compulsory sickness insurance system in this country would "inevitably degrade and deteriorate" the medical profession...
Especially blasted in the letter is the Republican record during President Roosevelt's administration; the Young Republicans state that the GOP exhibited "almost blind opposition to social welfare measures." They also single out the eightieth Congress for providing the "kind of embarrassment which the 1948 nominee could ill afford...
...essentially stupid, uneducated conservatives who appear to believe that conservative values (which they themselves do not understand) can be preserved intact by a two-fold policy of mouthing archaic shibboleths long since devoid of real meaning ("A balanced budget"!, "free private enterprise"!) together with legislative obstruction of virtually all social legislation. This was well illustrated by the record of the 80th Congress. In that now infamous body conservative leaders did themselves and their conservative constituents a grave disservice by offering little more than a diet of empty cant and obstructive ugliness...
...faith, and probably because of popular misconceptions concern- ing the meaning of conservatism, this is a job to be left to the professors. But their speeches and their votes indicate that they understand true conservatism and are prepared to work for it in practical ways--voting for extensions of social security, Federal aid to education, social development of natural resources. Instead of opposing all social legislation out of hand they are, most of them, always thinking up something new, using a new mechanism (i.e. the federal government) to preserve human values on the one hand and business enterprise...