Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.A.W. operations on Detroit's East Side; and two Reutherite vice presidents, plodding Richard Gosser, 46, of Toledo, and organizing expert John Livingston, 39, of St. Louis. Like Reuther, Mazey-who would henceforth be the U.A.W.'s No. 2 man-once held a card in the Socialist Party. He is a veteran of U.A.W. picket lines; as a G.I. he led a war's-end campaign to bring the boys home early from the Philippines...
Communist administration before leaving office. The new city council (25 Gaullists, 24 Communists, nine Socialists, five Popular Republicans) had merely let the decree go through. Nevertheless Red labor leaders summoned workers to the city hall to demonstrate against the fare increase. Two days later, the new council was having its first plenary session at the City Hall. Glowering, stocky Jean Cristofol, the ousted Red mayor, fixed a baleful eye on Carlini, his Gaullist successor, and interrupted the preliminary business to demand an immediate discussion of the streetcar-fare boost. Carlini refused. Instantly the 24 "Cocos" began shouting abuse...
Dalton's successor, Sir Stafford ("The Brain") Cripps, now at the pinnacle of his power, has more rigorous ideas than Dalton on the fiscal policy of a Socialist Government (TIME, Nov. 10). The first Cripps budget, to be presented in April, may contain more drastic provisions...
Final tallying of the British election last week proved nothing too certain except that the austere life does not lead to contentment. The English, Scotch and Welsh expressed dissatisfaction not so much with the socialist doctrine of the Labor Party as with a host of little unpleasantries that have been digging them ever deeper lately. The cut in the food ration, housing inertia, a ban on travel, and end of pleasure driving aided the Conservatives in turning out a vote fifty-six percent greater than last year but composed mostly of those who only hurl their ballots when they perceive...
...reign over this period of trial and tears; the role of critic is safer and more remunerative in the final showing. They were saved from any possibility of gaining power, though, since Prime Minister Attlee considered election returns an expression of temporary dissatisfaction rather than deep-rooted censure of socialist planning, and nationalization of industry will continue at least till the 1950 regular election...