Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moving westward through Pennsylvania in The Federal, the private railroad car in which Woodrow Wilson rode to victory in 1912, he proclaimed out of the past that the Democrats had beaten the Republicans to social security, the minimum wage, federal aid to the farmer. Meanwhile, his managers had arranged for a national TV hookup so that he could reply to Eisenhower's speeches in Cleveland and Lexington. At Pittsburgh Stevenson stepped before the TV cameras for a speech billed as a "turning point" of the campaign, but his sharp thrusts at Eisenhower and the Republican social-welfare record were...
...manufacture in a large part of the world. A combination of German camera manufacturers and British film makers might produce a colossus rivaling Eastman Kodak. This would not only make for better yet cheaper products and vastly expanded trade, but would help solve one of Europe's fundamental social and economic problems. In most European nations today, increases in real wages are blocked by the fear that they might make exports more expensive and less competitive. In a common European market there would be the same strong incentive to keep raising wages that exists in the U.S. -recognition that...
...four months the chief preoccupation of Italian politicians of every stripe has been the merger negotiations between Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat's Social Democratic Party and Pietro Nenni's Red-lining Socialists. By last week most of Rome's pundits agreed that unification was a foregone conclusion. All that remained was for Nenni to meet Saragat's prime condition for unification: denunciation of the "unity of action" pact that has bound Nenni's Socialists to Italy's Communist Party since...
...while Islam and Christianity waxed great and strong, the religion of Mother India, which worshiped God as One and as Three and as many, and saw in every faith a path to divinity, declined for a thousand years. Hinduism became a moldering mass of superstition and magic, social injustice and escape from the world...
...complicate matters even more, few Southern alumni of even a school such as Harvard are inclined to search for qualified Negroes. And even if the inclination were present, circumstances would not allow the type of social intercourse necessary to influence a student to consider a bi-racial school outside the South The barriers are too great...