Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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College has always been a mark of social distinction; it has recently become a prerequisite for even moderate-salaried jobs...
...serious defect in the Communist countries, the student said, is the selection of university students according to social class. Approximately 60 per cent are taken from the working classes, and about 30 per cent are peasants. This makes it extremely difficult for members of the "intelligentsia," or of other social groups to get into the remaining 10 per cent. The country, he said, is arbitrarily robbed of its talent...
...Moslem traditionalists in Lahore and surrounding areas grabbed unveiled women, shaved their heads and spat upon them. Shocked by these indignities, a group of progressive army officers began using their own unveiled wives and daughters as decoys to catch the fanatics. Begum Khatidja G.A. Khan is Deputy Minister for Social Services in West Pakistan. Says she: "The mullahs cannot make time stand still. We must be affected by the changing world." Said a Karachi newspaperman last week. "The Pakistani male has had it-from all four wives." When in 1954 then Prime Minister Mohammed Ali took a second wife, irate...
...Parliament floor was already alive with activity. "Get an ambulance!", "Call a doctor!", "Don't crowd!" shouted some of the members, as others rushed for first-aid equipment. In the midst of the commotion, two doctor-parliamentarians found their way to Minister of Religious Affairs and Social Welfare Moshe Shapiro, whose blood was gushing from bad wounds in the stomach and head...
...stockholders. They complained when in depressed 1930 Grace got a bonus of $1,623,000 for 1929. In the mid '30s Grace, with U.S. Steel, led the industry's opposition to the unionization of workers and to the New Deal. He waged a loud battle against Social Security and the closed shop...