Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Counsel for Mother Jones. Davis was born in 1873 in Clarksburg, W. Va., on April 13, the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, and he became one of his country's staunchest advocates of the democracy of Jefferson. As a West Virginia attorney Davis once joined Socialist Eugene V. Debs in defending the United Mine Workers' firebrand organizer, Octogenarian "Mother" Mary Jones, on charges of inciting a riot in a coal strike...
Chatter. In the House of Commons, Prime Minister Churchill jovially turned aside inquisitive gibes about his retirement. "[You] must not be led away by all the chatter in the press," said he. Socialist Woodrow Wyatt rose to criticize Churchill for disclosing his correspondence with Russia's Foreign Minister Molotov without first getting Molotov's permission. Said Wyatt: "If we disapprove of anything [you] might have written, [you] would only lose [your] job, whereas the men in the Kremlin stand to lose their heads." Righteous indignation filled Churchill's voice, but a smile touched his lips...
...Churchill took on other members. It was such a fine show that Socialist Arthur Woodburn arose and put a final, respectful question: "After the Prime Minister's performance today, where did the Conservative Party get the idea that he is too old to do the job?" Amid applause, tributes and cheers, Sir Winston, flushed pink with his mental and physical gymnastics and looking amazingly boyish, bowed courteously. Next he made off for his parliamentary constituency of 30 years, Woodford, to make a speech that teased some more. "Thirty years is a long time," said he, spacing his words...
West Germany gasped painfully last week as the Yalta documents arrived in time for the last stages of the debate on the Paris accords in the Bundesrat (upper house). Said Hesse's Socialist Minister President Georg August Zinn, attempting to make Socialist capital out of the chilling dialogue on German dismemberment; "The Yalta documents . . . show that it was not the will of one, but of all the Allied powers, not only to split Germany, but at the same time to merge the split parts into greater military and economic systems. I have a dark feeling that the issues discussed...
...Liberals, who have not forgiven Hatoyama's Democrats for the ousting of Yoshida after seven years as Premier, voted for Hatoyama as they had promised. But in the balloting for Speaker and Vice Speaker of the Diet's lower house, the conservative Liberals joined with the Socialists to defeat Hatoyama's two Democratic candidates. A Liberal was voted in as Speaker, a Socialist as Vice Speaker. This successful Liberal-Socialist maneuver showed that the new Premier might be at the mercy of similar anti-Hatoyama combines on graver issues at any time in the future...