Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advocates amplified social security, along with speeded-up industrialization, to fight Cuba's chronic joblessness. In answer to Batista's charge that Castro's movement is "proSoviet and pro-Communist," friends of Castro point to the character of his army. Almost to a man, they are Roman Catholics, who wear religious medals on their caps or on strings around their necks. For the sake of getting on with the war, Castro says, he avoids fruitless political discussions with his one outrightly pro-Red captain...
...partly the result of an inexorable trend that first revealed itself in the indecisive 1957 election, partly a stunning personal triumph for Diefenbaker. Barely nine months in office with a scant plurality government, he had stepped up Canada's already generous social welfare benefits, provided new government assistance for hard-pressed prairie farmers, injected fresh government funds to spur housing construction. A few days after taking office, he called on his fellow Canadians to do more of their buying in Britain, less in the U.S., and by year's end some shift appeared to be taking place. Beyond...
...Quebec, Liberal Pearson conceded the Tory victory, then sadly watched it roll westward across the time zones. It left the once-dominant Liberals with 49 seats, reduced the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation to a splinter of 8 seats, totally wiped out of Parliament Western Canada's funny-money Social Credit movement, which held 19 seats in the old House of Commons. Surveying the wreckage of his party's national ambitions, Alberta's Social Credit Premier Ernest Manning offered a wry jest: "The voters have put all their eggs in one basket and shot...
...Graham Greene, and The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway. Mr. Greene's novel attacked colonialism and is profoundly anti-American in a subtle and effective way, and the Hemingway book shows what happens to an old fisherman in a bourgeois society who does not have social security...
...three) who has spent two years studying schools, lists as his only other qualification the note that he owns a typewriter. Keats's notion is that if the public wants better education, it should form "citizens' grand juries"-school boards frequently are too secretive and P.T.A.s too social to be useful-to make calm and exhaustive investigations of local schools. Then suggestions should be made and enforced...