Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became a Communist there was revealed the pitiful effects of Communist tactics and dialectics on a man of integrity and idealism ... No humane man could possibly fail to understand how Mr. Davis grew bitter and resentful, but to join the Communists as an agency for the reform of our social wrongs reveals the trap into which otherwise honorable men too often fall...
There are good reasons for distrusting the facile analogy between 13 homogeneous colonies and seven nations very different in historical background and present social philosophy. Yet it was a fact of some importance to the world that the federal-union movement was growing in the U.S. and that Kefauver's resolution had as large and as varied a cross-section of senatorial support...
...Huks' arms in exchange for an amnesty, but the Huks turned in few arms, and fighting grew bitterer than ever. Said Governor Chioco: "We must use both our fists. In its right hand the government must have a gun. In the left hand it must have a sound social program, or the Huks will grow stronger...
...great Gres-ford Colliery disaster of 1934 which killed 265 men. Then Sam Watson, chairman of the national Labor Party and of the Durham Miners, said simply: "You'd be more comfortable if you all sat down now." It was a homey assembly, like an outsize church social. The miners sat on the grass, handkerchiefs on their heads as protection against the hot sun. They listened attentively to the rasping voice of Labor Prime Minister Clement Attlee; the silence was broken only when the miners murmured approval as he reminded them how much better working conditions were now than...
...Roman Catholics have long felt the need for a central agency where the church could express its official views on social, economic and moral questions. Rather than set up a new agency, they decided on the reorganization of an old one: the ten-year-old bureau of information of the National Catholic Welfare Conference in Washington...