Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million a year. One proposed item in this fund: $100 million of nonmilitary aid for the troubled Middle East and Africa, so that the U.S. will "be in a position to act promptly to help governments in this area in their efforts to find solutions for economic and social problems...
...political strain created by this basic moral and social conflict is felt most keenly in the Democratic Party. In New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois and other Northern states, at least 70% of the Negro vote in recent years has been Democratic and has been necessary for Democratic victory. Northern Democrats cannot abandon their pro-civil rights position, nor do their leaders wish...
This economic progress has not been accompanied by the slightest spontaneous relaxation of the rigid social and political controls that Southern whites imposed on Negroes after Reconstruction. (Southern talk that segregation is part of the South's traditional way of life is nonsense; in much of the South, Jim Crow is only half a century old.) Gradualists, North and South, used to comfort themselves with the theory that, with increasing Southern prosperity, the poor whites whose votes enforced segregation would lose their fear of Negro economic competition, and the problem of human rights would then solve itself. Unhappily, this...
...President apparently has none of these symptoms. He is under constant medical observation. He is receiving anti-coagulant treatment designed to prevent further trouble. He is cutting down on social commitments and detail works...
...prognosis is guarded in a normal convalescence, there is no reason to change it in Mr. Eisenhower's case. No matter how many social duites and petty details are shunted aside, there remains a heavy schedule of conferences, reading, and recommendations. Even if the president is left only the largest and most important decisions to make, he will still be subject to the mental strain and worry that is frequently considered a contributing factor in coronary heart disease...