Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Professor Theodore Brameld can keep on writing phrases like "the social consensus of the majority," he will be untroubled by educational "essentialists" in his reconstructed society. They will all be dead of tautological suffocation...
Even so, it was a big Senate week for welfare. Said Elder Democrat Walter George in an emotion-packed Senate valedictory: "This is the most important question I have ever presented to the American people." George's question was whether the Senate should, in addition to extending basic social-security coverage to 200,000 self-employed people, follow the House in reducing women's retirement eligibility from 65 to 62 and provide benefits to disabled 50-year-olds. The Administration's answer was an emphatic...
...minor) in one two-hour period. The Senate's big items concerned two politically loaded pieces of legislation. On one, the proposal for a federal dam in Hell's Canyon on the Idaho-Oregon border, the Democratic leadership took a whipping from the Administration. On the other, social-security expansion, the Democrats passed an Administration-opposed bill that will be useful this fall. In all, the tortoise was doing nicely...
...tendency would be for such wars to expand until the imperiled nation, in desperation, finally pushes its ICBM button. With that risk involved, even the smallest war in its ultimate consequences could become too hazardous for the undertaking. The form of war might therefore shift entirely to economic, social, political and ideological conflict...
...violence which claimed up to half a million lives. Somehow, through the public shock of Gandhi's assassination and by the determined use of power, the slaughter was finally checked. Nehru could at last turn his attention to other problems. He and his government forced through laws forbidding social and religious discrimination against untouchables. They incorporated into free India 552 princely states which the British had allowed to fester in medi eval autonomy. They held free elections-the world's largest-and by a mixture of force and political guile staved off Communist Party bids to win control...