Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WERE INVITED AND ATTENDED. E. C. DANIEL, THEN A CUB REPORTER FOR RALEIGH NEWS AND OBSERVER, AND NOW WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, PLAYED UP THE STORY IN A SENSATIONAL MANNER, FEATURING UNDERSIGNED'S NAME PROBABLY BECAUSE OF UNDERSIGNED'S BEING AT THAT TIME CHAIRMAN OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF NORTH CAROLINA. . . . REQUEST YOU MAKE THIS CORRECTION IN FAIRNESS TO MY COLLEAGUE FRANKLIN C. ERICKSON...
Britain last week turned a "deeper pink. In the first municipal elections to be held since 1938, voters emphatically reaffirmed their socialist stroke of last July...
London, long a Labor field, is now a socialist citadel: 22 of its 28 boroughs. 1,029 of its 1,377 councilors are Labor. Most of the smaller towns and blitzed areas went the same way. Some of the large provincial cities (e.g., Manchester, Liverpool) stayed Tory, but usually in the face of Labor gains. In traditionally Tory Birmingham, Labor nosed out the Conservatives by a single seat...
...wondered and worried. But Labor was undeterred. Buttressed by the people's renewed mandate in municipal elections (see above), it proceeded inflexibly on its course to state ownership. The Bank of England had lost its battle, the coal owners were reconciled to coming defeat. Labor was widening its socialist grip, tightening its socialist squeeze...
Last week Socialist Clement Attlee broke the precedent. Announcing to the House of Commons that Britain's World War II commanders would get no money rewards, he said: "It would not be in the spirit of the times...