Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western Sudan, has been that of education and assimilation-the idealistic if not always practicable notion that once Africans think of themselves as Frenchmen, everything will be all right. In Mozambique and Angola, Portugal, the poorest and least progressive of the white masters, offers an approximation of social equality but little else...
...childlike faith of the people in Eisenhower. One seldom hears a businessman teeing off on Ike for doing the very things that caused him to cuss out Roosevelt and Truman as 'Socialists.' The answer must be that our businessmen have changed with the times in terms of social attitudes and are glad the program is being administered by a man they trust...
...readers as far as page 3-devoted a banner head and five columns to tax stories, including tips on evasion of state taxes by Columnist Jack Mabley and a dispatch from London, where Editor Walters, on tour, was busily exposing Lord Beveridge and Britain's womb-to-tomb social-security system...
...history. In a country whose clergy were ofter accused of being allied with the aristocracy, Wyszynski always identified himself with the working man. He was born poor, son of a church organist and schoolteacher in the village of Zuzela near Bialystok. He earned a doctorate in Canon Law and Social Sciences at the University of Lublin, and became known as a "labor priest." He wrote several books on such subjects as unemployment and the rights of labor, was even beginning to act as counsel in labor disputes when, in 1939, the Nazis blitzed Poland...
...Boleslaw Piasecki. Piasecki had worked as an agent for Mussolini, later for the Gestapo; when he was picked up by the NKVD, he eagerly ratted on his associates, most of whom were promptly liquidated. But nervous Boleslaw, casting about for further life insurance, landed in Pax-officially called the Social Radical Movement of Polish Catholics. The organization had the monopoly on religious publishing, plus the manufacture and sale of all religious articles. The resulting flow of cash provided Piasecki with a luxurious villa, where he kept a Jaguar and plenty of caviar and cognac to drive the blues away. Piasecki...