Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rhodes scholar who took honors in jurisprudence at Oxford (B.S., M.A.). he rose from a Milwaukee practice to dean of the University of Pittsburgh Law School, was appointed Under Secretary of Labor because of his definitive books on fast-changing workmen's compensation laws and on the social security system. Ike read A Republican Looks at His Party while convalescing from his ileitis operation, sent for Larson and had long talks with him while trying to put Eisenhower Republicanism into scholarly terms...
Other Pump Primers. With emotions ranging from cold to lukewarm, President Eisenhower signed these pump primers: a $1.8 billion emergency housing bill, a $5.5 billion highway construction bill and a $524 million federal civilian pay raise. In the congressional works last week was a $700 million increase in social security benefits-and it is threatened by veto...
...impressive: some 30 people, ranging from Mohammed ben Aissi, who, police claim, was the head of F.L.N.'s Region No. 3 (northeastern France), to a 24-year-old Moslem girl who was a philosophy student at the Sorbonne, to a civil servant who worked in the French social security office in Lille, had access to employment rolls and was thus able to supply the names of Moslem workers who could be forced to contribute to F.L.N. Also gathered in: half a ton of documents, including false identity cards and residence certificates. The F.L.N. octopus in France was still alive...
...winners (see color page), unanimously chosen by a three-man jury:* first prize ($1,500), Manhattan Abstractionist John Ferren, 52, for his The Birches; second ($750), Social Realist Semyon Shimin, 55, for his Discussion Groups-Rome, sketched in Rome during the 1956 elections but finished in Manhattan; and third ($250), Milton Goldring, 40, also a New Yorker, for his Shadow and Substance. The predominant tone of the festival is abstract expressionist, and imitative of the leaders of that movement...
...parents to drive their children less harshly, play down the necessity of remaining daus. Educators argue that much of the blame for failures must be laid to crowded classrooms and ill-educated teachers. Happily for future rots, the government is planning alternatives to suicide: vocational schools and schools for social service...