Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most critical economic problem facing the U.S. is the failure to achieve the necessary economic growth," declares the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Economic Policy Committee, chaired by United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther. Necessary for what? For "improved living standards" and "defense and military requirements" and "the social needs of an ever enlarging population." The Administration's stress on price stability, charges the statement, is a "surefire prescription for stagnation...
...other end of Canada, labor unions were also about to get some lumps. In British Columbia, where strike-prone unions accounted for 17% of all man-days lost in Canada last year, the ruling Social Credit party introduced a bill that would make unions legal entities subject to civil suits for damages resulting from strikes. The proposed law would also ban sympathy picket lines, blacklisting of companies, boycotts of goods turned out by nonunion labor...
...social problem is at best only a potential menace to the institution of Sophomore Standing. Associations and friendships at Harvard are not determined by class standings and the new Sophomore is free to live either in an upperclass House or in the Yard. Of the 55 A.P. students with this choice, only nine took the option of living in a House...
...Beta Kappa elected six juniors to membership Wednesday. Those chosen are Judith A. Abrams '60, of Briggs Hall and Brooklyn, N.Y., majoring in English, Shelia A. Greibach '60, of Briggs Hall and New Rochelle, N.Y., Linguistics and Applied Mathematics, Alice J. Hendrickson '60, of Whitman Hall and Seattle, Wash., Social Relations, Alice M. Maffry '60, of Gillan House and New York City, Classics, Majory Mauser '60, of Eliot Hall and New York City, History and Literature, and Jeanne Rosen '60, of Saville House and Cincinnati, Ohio, English...
...purposeful. "It is only the individual who styles himself as one of a 'cultural elite,'" he commented, who claims to be able to discriminate to the finest degree the 'good' from the 'bad' that can take offense. Here the scholar-as-collector reveals the fact that his financial and social interests in painting have surpassed his artistic...