Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Extension of social-security benefits to the 10% of Americans not now covered...
...history would not be an entirely satisfactory assignment, but Rockefeller never cringed. Tactfully staying in the background, he used his experience and skill as a Washington administrator to get the new department on its feet, drafted the major planks in the Eisenhower welfare program, e.g., expansion of social security, federal aid for hospital construction. The career employees in HEW took a genuine liking to the millionaire who was humanly interested in their problems; the Food and Drug Administration staff made him an "honorary inspector...
...Communism as the mortal foe of everything that we hold dear, of every moral and spiritual value. Too many are still prisoners of the illusion that Communism is, historically speaking, a progressive system . . . extreme liberalism temporarily making bad mistakes. Actually, Communism represents darkest reaction. It is an anti-social system in which there are embedded some of the worst features of savagery, slavery, feudalism and life-sapping exploitation manifested in the industrial revolution of early-day capitalism...
...trend away from the Liberals is clearly toward the Tories. The strength of the minority CCF (socialist) and Social Credit Parties has remained fairly constant in the past six months, but the voters' preference for the Tories has risen from 26% in June to 32% today. Most encouraging from the Tory standpoint is the poll's evidence of a 22% increase in Tory popularity in Ontario and a 17% gain in Quebec, good signs that the party is making its greatest headway in the two big provinces where federal election campaigns are lost...
...within the boundaries of one's own state. I believe in travel. And travel to Siegfried means that if one is studying India, he must be in India. Applying this view to politics, Siegfried initated the school of electoral geography which demands that one must understand the cultural, economic, social, religious, and consequently psychological forces governing a group before one can honestly understand its political behaviour. The first book in this field, France, a Study in Nationality, may be Seigfried's greatest work. His predictions in 1913 on the future of Western France have held true through the duress...