Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet satellites that proved to be in the vanguard." Then, all joviality abandoned, Nikita Khrushchev made clear his intention of using Russia's new technological power as an instrument of international blackmail: "We would like a high-level meeting of representatives of capitalist and socialist countries to take place so as to reach an agreement based on the consideration of true reality...
...wealthy mining engineer and landowner, Gaillard was a precociously brilliant schoolboy, showed an early devotion to economics. After energetic wartime service in the resistance, he attended various international conferences as a financial expert, was elected to the Assembly (at 27) as a Radical Socialist in 1946, became a junior minister the next year. As Secretary of State to the Premier in 1953, he launched le plan Gaillard, a five-year program for atomic energy development. But he was little known to the French public until last summer, when as Finance Minister in the Bourges-Maunoury government, he courageously devalued...
...impecunious orthodontist, Lopez Mateos was born in Atizapán de Zaragoza in Mexico state. While getting his law degree at night school, he worked his way teaching history and literature at a normal school. He started in politics in 1929 as a Socialist, switched easily to the government party when its chief offered to make him his secretary. He rose to Senator in 1946, managed Ruiz Cortines' campaign for the presidency...
...something like: "I told Uppie not to do it, but he wouldn't listen and so he was arrested again." Sinclair fought John D. Rockefeller Jr. by picketing his Wall Street offices in crape. He bugled for milk, vegetarianism, Prohibition. Sacco and Vanzetti. Yet even a New York Socialist leader said: "Sinclair is an ass." And he never really wrote very well. After a rejected manuscript, according to one anecdote, Mary said sadly: "Why can't you seem to use the right words...
Uppie's fight against the world was honorable, but his "industrial democracy" is as dead as Eugene Debs. His main battle-against poverty-was won not really by his Socialist martyrs but by the capitalist villains. Nowadays, the Sinclairs live in Monrovia, Calif, and at 79 Uppie is as convinced as ever that he is a power in human affairs. He notes proudly that he is the author of three million books and pamphlets "flowing into every country in the world." He keeps up the old reformer's unreformed habit of issuing letters-to-the-editor on every...