Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chile's brightest hopes lie in the half-Socialist, half-RFC Development Corporation, whose projects-a major steel mill, the Spring Hill oilfield, a copper processing plant, a new fishing industry-could in the long run raise the level of production. But the Chilean man in the street looked for action now. He would look to the new President...
Often only those people who have been personally devoted to a leader will undertake to write his or her biography. Certainly Margaret Cole, who worked with Beatrice Webb in the Fabian Society, is too closely connected with the British Socialist movement to maintain even an aura of scholarly objectivity. The author seems more concerned with justifying each particular action of her idol than with evaluating her various campaigns in the light of her announced objectives. This, plus a rather careless style, makes "Beatrice Webb" more of an expanded pamphlet than a work of research, but Mrs. Cole's observations...
Russian consulates throughout the Middle East had opened their doors to Armenian refugees, promised them homes near Erivan, capital of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Workers, poor students, intellectuals responded quickly: by the end of 1945, 20,000 had applied in Iran, 35,000 in Syria and Lebanon, thousands more in Greece, Egypt and Palestine...
Died. James ("Jimmy") Maxton, 61, firebrand leader for 19 years of the tiny Independent Labor Party in Britain's House of Commons, variously known as "most popular M.P.," "the Wild Man from the Clyde" and "the Rebel without an Enemy," brilliant Socialist prophet and author (If I were Dictator); after long illness; in Largs, Scotland. Cadaverous, lank-haired Jimmy Maxton once enraged fellow Scots by saying: "I think porridge just one of the greatest swindles ever worked on an innocent and unsuspecting people. I do not think that it has any food value...
...uses his fine portrait, which is drawn in almost Holbein-like detail, as the text for a two-part sermon on the sins of capitalistic Iceland and the promised blessings of Marxism (he is a member of Iceland's Communist, or so-called United People's Front-Socialist, party...