Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford Foundation plans-which were approved quietly by the U.S. State Department-call for exchange visits between Poland and the U.S. and West European countries of engineers, social science professionals, architects, educators and students, as well as shipments of books and periodicals to Polish libraries, institutions and individuals. "We know," Heald said, "that activity of an educational or scientific character is not a substitute for the essential security efforts of our Government. But we have the conviction that in the development of international understanding there is a proper and vital role for private institutions, including private philanthropy...
...high 80s. Evenings, in a long-established vacation ritual, were spent around the bridge table at "Mamie's Cottage." (Mamie herself took to her bed for a two-day rest, flew back to Washington at week's end to get ready for a heavy social week...
...greater productivity. The result: increasing cost pressure against prices. The ultimate result, if labor continues to ask not only for "an increased share of a growing pie, but actually to eat the pie before it is baked": the corrosion of not only "individual security but the underpinning of our social structure...
...include desertion and cruelty. There was a brief, un-English peak after the war when second thoughts on impulsive war marriages swelled the divorce rate to 60,000 a year. Since then, the rate has dropped to a steady and conservative 7% of marriages (v. 25% in the U.S.). Social attitudes, and the teachings of the Established Church, still make for disapproval of divorce, and contributed to Princess Margaret's decision to reject marriage with Group Captain Peter Townsend, not so much because he was a commoner or nearly twice her age, but because he was divorced...
...occasion for Molotov's burst of reminiscence was the 40th anniversary of his first meeting with Lenin. The milder February Revolution of 1917, sled by the Social-Democrats and the Socialist-Revolutionaries and their allies, had broken out. Most of the leading Bolsheviks were still on their way to Petrograd from places of exile. In their absence Molotov, one of the editors of Pravda, gave out Bolshevik policy: Demand the complete Marxist program forthwith. When the big Bolsheviks arrived, they pooh-poohed the youthful (27) Molotov's naive and uncompromising view. But when Lenin stepped...