Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there a valid principle at stake between Fairless' theory of contributory pensions and Murray's theory of pensions financed entirely by industry? The majority of pension plans in U.S. industry were noncontributory. But there was also plenty of precedent in the U.S. (including Social Security) for the other theory. On other fronts last week industries were busy making bargains based on both propositions (see below) as pragmatic matters of business rather than as items of far-reaching sociological or economic import...
...into a fund administered by an insurance company, would supplement the 1 1/4?-an-hour insurance program already in effect. After 30 years of service at age 65, workers would be paid enough out of the fund to give them a $100-a-month pension, counting in their Social Security. As Social Security increased, Ford's part of the obligation would decrease. Ford could count on a lessening of its labor turnover; workers could look forward to a more secure...
Following Burlingame, Elizabeth Janeway, author of "Daisy Kenyon," deplored what she described as a marked tendency among modern writers to fear any kind of power-political or social-and as a result to preach a doctrine of "wilful irresponsibility" in their books. Mrs. Janeway concluded, however, that "we are on an up-curve of talent and ability...and our best writers are, perhaps more than ever, truly concerned with how people live...
According to a transcript of her speech, the chairman stated that "scarcely have the war drums died down...while peace-loving countries are busily planning, working, and rebuilding their social order, there are those who are plotting further exploitation and oppression. Foremost among them are the banks and trusts--the high financiers, monopolists, imperialists of America...Through the Marshall Plan they dump their produce on the needy peoples of the world...through the guise of being champions of world democracy they dictate the political policies of the participating countries." She went on to cite the example of the Soviet Union...
...present at the Festival was Robert L. Warshaw '46 1L. Warshaw had first heard about the Festival last spring when he had applied for a job as an NSA discussion leader aboard the S. S. VOLENDAM. He had put in a year of graduate work in the Social Relations Dept., had been a part-time research assistant at the Russian Research center, and was interested in Eastern European problems. "I joined the delegation to see what was going on," says Warshaw...