Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Republican Herbert Hoover finally carried the University, all three Presidential candidates in 1928, including Socialist Norman Thomas, were represented among undergraduate organizations--and sometimes violently. The Smith Club petitioned to let the world know "the vital meaning of the world America"; the Republicans announced that Hoover was "well-informed"; and Thomas's Socialists (who accounted for 3.7 per cent of the final College vote) merely pleaded for a "just industrial system...
Politically, the Socialist Club again took the spotlight when Lawrence B. Cohen, Jr. '32 managed to get himself arrested in the Square for distributing pamphlets which welcomed England's Premier MacDonald. The alert Cambridge police jailed him on Chapter 27 of the General Ordinances, it was learned afterward. Cohen was eventually fined $10, but his literature was restored after pleas that it was not radical but only explanatory...
...businessman who has a family connection with the wealthy Rothschilds, Mayer served with De Gaulle in North Africa during World War II. Later, as chief spokesman for the hard-shelled North African colons, it was he who delivered the crucial, brutal Assembly speech which brought down his fellow Radical Socialist and arch-political foe, Premier Pierre Mendès-France (TIME, Feb. 14). He is a sufficiently good European to satisfy the Catholic M.R.P. members of Faure's coalition Cabinet, but he tempers his enthusiasm with enough pragmatic caution to satisfy even the Gaullists...
...army of nearly 900 candidates ranged the countryside last week in competition for the regional assembly's 90 seats. (Current division: Demo-Christians 30, the Communist and left-wing Socialist "bloc of the people" 30, neo-Fascist M.S.I, II , Monarchists 10, others 9). Sicilians, as is their habit, reveled in the spectacle. What mainlanders call political rallies, Sicilians zestfully term parlata (gabfest), and they turn out for them all with impartial thoroughness. "And you would never guess from seeing him at a parlata what is hatching in the Sicilian's brain," explained a Sicilian bishop...
...765th week on the air. The first show, on May 26, 1940, began with the U.S. Constitution. Since then, on Sundays from 11:30 to noon, about 550 conversationalists have appeared on the program to discuss more than 750 books. Among them: Historian Arnold Toynbee, Shakespearean Producer Margaret Webster, Socialist...