Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...examples: one Social Studies class in San Jose took up the topic of elections. The students, reading about the low numbers of registered voters in their town, went out, rang doorbells, and played a part in increasing the registrations for the November 1948 elections by 4,000. An English class in Fortuna. fascinated by the building of a new dam in their county, interviewed engineers, studied blueprints, took pictures, and wrote and sold a magazine article on their experience. In San Diego, a science teacher said...
Twenty years ago, Leland Olds, like many another New Dealer, had some radical notions about capitalism. As a reporter for a labor news syndicate, he once wrote: ". . . Capitalism in the United States is rapidly passing into the stage which has marked the decay of many earlier social orders . . . The owners exist only [as] a privileged class of parasites whose idleness and dissipation become an increasing stench in the nostrils of the people...
...Senate floor five years earlier. Olds, a plain-featured man with jutting ears and a smooth manner of speech, testified that he had written as he did "because I believed radical writing was needed in the 'golden '20s' to shock the American people. . . out of the social and political lethargy . . ." He emphatically denied that he had ever been a Communist; Communism was a "negation of democracy...
Thus, in 1894. Bernard Shaw justified Mrs. Warren's Profession by blaming it on the sweatshop wages which capitalism paid the female proletariat. Mrs. Warren was invoked as a witness last week before the U.N.'s Social and Humanitarian Committee, which was debating a Draft Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others. The committee, exclaimed Mexico's Raul Noriega, must not come to share Mr. Shaw's "casuistic attitude." In a rare show of unanimity, their usually separate moral sensibilities jointly outraged, the U.S., Britain...
Russia's V. M. Zonov, while pointing-out that the "progressive social legislation" in the Soviet Union had solved the problem of prostitution, nevertheless supported the unamended article, to help alleviate, in other countries, an evil "from, which the poor suffer most." In vain Haiti's Stephen Alexis argued that it was no use trying to suppress prostitution,, since, "as long as there are planets in the sky," there would also be prostitutes, and-at that, "of both sexes." France's amendment (if not Mrs. Warren's profession) was defeated...