Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been invoked on many occasions in recent times. This may have given a widespread impression that the principal effect of the Fifth is to stand between wrongdoers and their just punishment. But the courts have made it plain that the Fifth Amendment cannot successfully be invoked merely because social discredit and persecution may be the consequence of testimony. That is why Prof. Edward S. Corwin was able to make the following statement of fact in his annotations of the Constitution: "The privilege exists solely for the protection of the witness himself, and may not be claimed for the benefit...
...basis of a Massachusetts law (several other states have similar statutes) which says that "when practicable," adopting parents should be of the sarne religion as the natural mother. An appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Court was denied in February 1955. That June Hildy's mother appeared with two social workers at the Ellises' Brookline home and demanded the child. "Hildy was terrified," Mrs. Ellis recalls. "I said to Miss McCoy, 'Won't it bother you that she will cry for me and for her daddy tonight if you take...
...being realistic about everything we do. We are a profitmaking organization." So says President Raymond Stevens of Arthur D. Little, Inc., the Cambridge (Mass.) research firm, which has done a notable job in reforming seven countries -at a price. Last week, adding luster to its reputation for solving social and economic problems from Iraq to Puerto Rico, A.D.L. took on two new projects: ¶ It contracted with the International Cooperation Administration and the Philippine government to expand 300 credit-lending rural coops. Organized in 1952 to free small farmers from local Chinese moneylenders, the co-op system needs expert management...
Marriage Revealed. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 44, multimillionaire racehorse breeder (Native Dancer, Social Outcast) ; and Jean Cudahy Harvey, 20, of the railroad-restaurant and meat-packing families; he for the third time, she for the first; on March 12, in Mexico City...
...sentence has a Hemingway ring, and not by chance. Social historians could do worse than examine this obituary for evidence of how Hemingway has influenced a whole generation of child actors who have tried to live in the image of his heroes. The book is shot through with the sentimental stoicism of the Hemingway man, and with the hedonist worship of the "art of living," which calls for everything just so-the old-fashioneds must have a touch of honey, the mustache scissors must be of 18th century French make, even the final, fatal razor must be a Rolls...