Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...version, Dictator Stalin made no horrible mistakes until 1934, when "he began to believe in his own infallibility" and grew deaf to his comrades' advice. Among his biggest boners: the purges of the late '30s, trusting Hitler, feuding with Tito, believing in inevitable war between capitalist and socialist states. "Stalinism" is now officially a tainted word, but that is not Joe's fault: "The term is an invention of reactionary imperialist circles...
Last week Nakamura and his mayoralty candidate, Socialist Tetsuji Otsu, wheedled enough votes from the fire-ravaged Naseians to win the election. Their most telling campaign promise: money to rebuild the burned-out homes. But Father Jerome, struggling to help the survivors of a new storm, knew that the battle had barely begun. Said he: "It's too early to tell yet whether the Reds are going to try to hamper our work, now that they've won. But they know we are not exactly well disposed toward them...
While ideological thaw crept through the satellites in the wake of the 20th Party Congress, East Germany's Socialist Unity (Communist) Party remained the iceberg of the Communist world. Goat-bearded First Secretary Walter Ulbricht, 64, an old-line Stalinist, kept his party and his nation under tight control. Intellectuals or students showing signs of "liberalism" were summarily jailed...
Since 1953 the French production growth of about 10% a year has matched Germany's, and exceeded that of all other countries in Europe. But massive outlays for supplies abroad, plus the war in Algeria, plus openhanded spending under Guy Mollet's Socialist government at home, reduced gold and hard-money reserves to an untouchable minimum. Overbuying of raw materials last year and speculation against the franc helped put foreign trade out of balance by $1.4 billion...
...here tonight because I do not want to see this socialist-labor thing spread to the rest of the country, and the place to cure it, at this point, is here in Michigan. Here in Michigan you are in the front-line trenches. We from the rest of the country are looking to you. For what happens here, can happen to the whole country...