Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down the road to the Crystal Palace. Granted, there was justification for fearing such an about-face in 1952, when the General was something of an uninitiated commander crusading for the wrong side. At the head of a party which had spent the previous twenty years blocking every major social advance, he seemed like a quarterback at the mercy of his own old guard: he wanted to break through and win, but he didn't call any plays of his own. He endorsed all Republicans, including Senator McCarthy; he decided it was wise not to speak up in General Marshall...
...that Eisenhower does personally believe in and accept reciprocal trade, a form of federal aid to education, a program of national health insurance, foreign economic aid and the peaceful use of atomic power for the benefit of the whole world, a more liberal immigration law, equal rights for all, Social Security, and America's international obligations and the United Nations. In short, President Eisenhower has said a clear "Me too" to the American liberal tradition...
...point. And his vigorous executive activity when he was faced with an opposition legislature as governor of Illinois prove that he should have no temptations to become a hesitant President where party leadership is concerned. For the programs Stevenson has been putting forth in this election, especially those concerning social legislation and foreign policy, he should have a good chance of finding strong Congressional support...
Stevenson has offered imaginative new programs in health insurance and social security, as well as education, while Eisenhower has been content with less in these lines than even Fortune Magazine. Further, in public power, he has repudiated a principle established by Roosevelt's TVA--the principle that a comprehensive federal power program stimulates much more private enterprise through low rates than it kills through government administration. By attempting to deny this principle through a "partnership" plan which combines private inefficiency with government expenditure, the President has thrown national thinking on this subject back some twenty years...
...brother" would have the additional advantage of being able to ease the foreign student's social adjustment. To date, the University has done almost nothing for the social life of its foreign students. Although the International Student Center at 33 Garden St. can introduce the foreigner to American families in the area, only Harvard can ease the student's social life within the University...