Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the same giant platform, but before a slightly smaller crowd than had listened to Ike, Adlai Stevenson made a major bid for the farm vote at Newton. Gone were the Stevensonian subtleties, the sophisticated quips, the careful acknowledgment of social and economic complexities. Instead, Stevenson struck out harshly at the Administration and its farm policies, promised the farmers everything but the moon on behalf of the Democrats. For all this he was handsomely rewarded with 30 bursts of laughter and applause...
...young Bob Wagner's career had its genesis in old Bob's career. The first few years had not been easy for the German immigrant lad, who had settled with his parents in Manhattan's Yorkville section, a sort of East River Frankfurt. The social center for Yorkville's Vereinsmeier was Tammany's 16th District Democratic Club, and Robert Wagner became an eager, active member. To get an education he took on any and all odd jobs, while his own father contributed from a janitor's small wages and an Uncle August walked...
Just Two Left. At six, he earned his first dollar as a page boy in the state senate, where his father already was writing a record of social legislation that later served as model for the New Deal. With his father, the boy visited Woodrow Wilson's summer White House at Shadow Lawn, N.J., went on political outings to a Long Island inn near the Good Ground estate of Tammany Boss Charles F. Murphy, rode ponyback on Governor Al Smith's Great Dane, Caesar...
...principle before the New Deal was born in fact, he is known to history as the author of the drastically pro-union Wagner Labor Relations Act (in his Senate campaign this year, young Bob carries a hero's name in upstate industrial centers), one of the architects of social security, a great and forceful advocate of civil-rights measures (a fact that young Bob will recall to the minds of New York State's 1,000,000 Negroes...
...freshman isn't asked to enter the contest, she may feel that she is getting off to a bad start in social life, Miss Belkin says. At another time of year it would be fine...