Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro hopes to speed up the government's economic, social and reform programs and reorganization of the government and army...
Indeed, the gales of social criticism were already blowing before young Vincent Astor fully comprehended that he, at 20, was heir to one of the U.S.'s least popular traditions-fortune founded by great-great-grandfather out of fur trading with the Indians and Manhattan real estate; fortune battened down by grandfather and father upon acres of New York tenements bitterly known as "Astor Flats"; fortune tarnished when half the family moved to England because the U.S. was not "a fit country for gentlemen to live...
...into a model farm, parts into a holiday home for invalid children. He kicked off and often led a house-to-house canvass of tenements built on his land, urged New York police to crack down on lawbreaking landlords. In later years, during Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's social-reform surge, he demolished slum tenements by the dozen, sold others to New York City on easy terms...
...eventful decade. Astor turned his social awareness toward politics. The focus: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Hudson Valley neighbor he had come to like while Astor was a naval officer in World War 1 and Franklin Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. With open pocketbook, with amateur's enthusiasm, Vincent Astor backed his neighbor for New York Governor, for U.S. President, took F.D.R. cruising on his $2,500,000 yacht Nourmahal after the election (TIME Cover. April 9, 1934). End result: disappointment. When F.D.R. went farther and farther to the left, Astor could not go along, and soon...
...government. On one hand, a pair of responsible moderates, President Manuel Urrutia and Premier Jose Miró Cardona, struggled with the nation's immediate problems, notably restless labor. On the other, Fidel Castro (who hand-picked Urrutia and Miró Cardona) moved uncoordinatedly toward a nationalist, leftist social program...