Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affairs, fields where its coverage is now good but short. Already it has dipped a bashful toe into Conservative politics. Shy, wealthy Philip Gordon Dunn, 41, its Canadian-born chairman and a major shareholder, would probably go Tory all the way if he were not afraid of offending his Socialist readers...
Roedean last week braced itself for the advent of a new headmistress. In her forties, tweedy Norah Horobin is a "Christian Socialist" and a lady of the likes of the Lawrence sisters. Miss Horobin is strong on discipline, science and sports, and already the word has spread to Roedean that she is "frightfully gamesy...
...Duce showered on the streets of Milan and Naples, nostalgic Sicilian crowds chanted Giovinezza, the Fascist hymn. And in the nationwide municipal elections Guglielmo Giannini's Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party registered a spectacular 70% gain over its total vote last June, ran second (behind a Communist-Socialist coalition) in Rome, third in Naples, first in Palermo...
...King's speech, written by his Socialist Ministers, there was not much news. Electricity and inland transport would be nationalized, but the gas industry got a reprieve, and private ownership of steel mills might even draw a suspended sentence from Britain's Socialist masters...
This, too, was contrary to tradition. Through the centuries, the overwhelming majority of British M.P.s had voted as they talked, but Grossman & Co. let it be known that if Prime Minister Attlee forced the issue they would not vote to censure the Foreign Secretary. Socialist Attlee, as much a part of the British tradition as any Clarenceux King-of-Arms, promptly forced the issue-on an amendment sponsored by 58 Laborites who wanted a "softer" British foreign policy. When Attlee made the vote a question of confidence in the Government, none of the 58 voted for the amendment...