Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mollet's logical inclination was to increase personal and corporate income taxes. At this direct challenge to the universal French conviction that a man's private income is none of the government's business, virtually the entire National Assembly rose in revolt. Socialist Mollet, keenly aware that any effective tax increase would fall most heavily upon the low-income groups from which he derives his political support, did not fight very hard. The result: an agreement that the government would not raise income taxes until it had tried to finance Algerian war costs through a public loan...
...international Stalin Prizes "for strengthening peace among nations" ($25,000 and a gold medal) will henceforth be called "Lenin Prizes for Strengthening International Friendship." Even previous Stalin Prizewinners (e.g., U.S. Novelist Howard Fast, 1953; Italian Left Wing Socialist Pietro Nenni, 1951) will receive certificates renaming their awards...
...worker's, called Stakhanovites, whose example sets the pace for higher production targets and individual output "norms." Last week in Rumania the abnormal norms of Stakhanovite Lathe Operator Constantin Vasilache established what ought to be a Stakhanovite record for all satelliteland. In August, it was announced, Hero of Socialist Labor Vasilache turned out work equal to six times his norm every day. Vasilache totted up past performances and reported proudly in Rominia Libera: "Thanks to these accomplishments, I was able to start work on my quota for the year...
...nonstrategic items, although the Milan right-wing daily, La Patria, charged that Contact Man Muratori is "a notorious trafficker in strategic materials to the Soviet bloc." Gentili repays the Reds doubly for his virtual monopoly by pouring much of his profit into the treasury of the Communist-lining Italian Socialist Party of his good friend Pietro Nenni. (Gentili's contributions to Nenni in this year's May election: a reported...
Beer & Baccy. However this bit of fancy does not occur before Old Cock has duly delivered himself of a few well-rounded reflections on the "Socialist mob, the thieving upstarts," and stated his Weltanschauung: "Cutting the cackle, it's a bloody washout in which the baby is thrown out with the bathwater and devil take all. Talk about Rights. What Rights? Then I will tell you . . . the right of an Englishman true-born and free to get his beer and baccy, his Java, bread and scrape, plum-and-apple, cut off the joint and choice of two veg . . . good...