Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Socialists, the Laborites were committed to planning for Africa. Commented a Tory M.P., Arthur Douglas Dodds Parker, in last week's debate: "With all their talk, Socialist plans are very scanty." Sample: the planners expected that by now they would be getting greatly increased production of Nigerian coal, peanuts and palm kernels. They neglected to provide increased transportation to move in these products. An order for 20 locomotives for Nigeria was given priority rating three years ago, but it had slipped behind 50 non-priority locomotives which the manufacturer wanted to deliver first for Britain's own railroads...
...minority report defining the sovereignty of the states. Two other Southerners, Mississippi's Walter Sillers and Cecil Sims of Tennessee, followed with similar amendments. Cried Sillers: "Give us the right to govern our own fundamental affairs!" Then ex-Congressman Andrew J. Biemiller, of Wisconsin, a onetime Socialist who helped manage Norman Thomas' campaign in 1932, a colleague of Humphrey on the platform committee, presented the Northern minority report on civil rights...
Last week he survived another crisis, the civil servants' strike, and then this week he crashed, a victim of the law of averages and of the almost mathematical perfection of the Socialist Party's stupidity...
Schuman would not accept the amendment nor this kind of one-party dictation to his coalition. He said he would resign if the amendment passed. When the vote came, his Socialist ministers rose from the government benches and resigned to sit and vote with their party. Schuman was beaten...
...attendants which had begun that morning as a protest against low wages. One of Italy's most famous surgeons. Dr. Pietro Valdoni. worked over Togliatti for 2½ hours while Signorina Iotti and Togliatti's wife, white-haired Rita Montagna, stood in the doorway. Togliatti's Socialist ally, Pietro Nenni. wandered aimlessly about the corridors. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, his face greyer than usual, hurried to the Policlinico. "This," he said grimly as he left, "is the worst possible thing that could have happened...