Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authority of any segment in all U.S. labor. But they have a boss who is much more than a boss. To them, busy, bumptious little David Dubinsky is leader, father, prophet and demigod. To his I.L.G.W.U., they display furious devotion. It is a school, a welfare clinic, a social life and a political mentor. It is, as some of them say, a way of life...
London's wise, brilliant Economist has long been one of the Labor government's most relentless gadflies. It has mercilessly told the British people that they must work even harder, and give up some of Labor's expensive social achievements, in order to export and live. But last week, amid thicker & thicker criticism of Britain's Labor regime, the Economist, with wrath flashing and statistics flying, lined up with His Majesty's government...
Best Vatican guesses were that the Pope would name no more than eight or ten new cardinals. U.S. names most often mentioned: Archbishop John Joseph Mitty (65) of San Francisco, who is highly rated for his work on social problems; Archbishop John Timothy McNicholas (71) of Cincinnati, and Archbishop Francis P. Keough (58) of Baltimore, both leaders in the National Catholic Welfare Conference. In Canada, rumors centered on Archbishop Maurice Roy of Quebec (the oldest Roman Catholic see in North America), Archbishop Alexander Vachon of Ottawa, and Archbishop Joseph Charbonneau of Montreal...
...subservience to the world." Conversely, saints have been the greatest revolutionaries. Maritain contends that for centuries the world's temporal progress was fostered by the saints. It was only during the last hundred-odd years, when the results of the industrial revolution were bringing mankind more & more to social thinking and social action, that the saints dropped from the lead and the atheists took over...
...comedy in A Sea Change comes bubbling from the familiar old wells of human vanity, but the effect of this particular bucketful is to give the U.S. butcher-paper weeklies a good dousing. Dennis' fictional magazine is called Forward, its wealthy owner is social-minded Mrs. Gertrude Morgan, and its readers are advanced, intelligent people who have no patience with old notions of simple, pre-Freudian goodness, pre-Marxian prosperity or purely American foreign policy. At pretending to know what they don't know, Forward's editors are impressive, and none is more so than swarthy, neurotic...