Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...filled your Oct. 28 issue with live examples of the "Capitalist Challenge." What greater contrast can you offer than West Germany and Ludwig Erhard as free enterprise and France and Socialist strangulation? It looks as if your report should be made available to all politicians who would sell their heritage for a mess of pottage...
Cheers for a nation which, ruined in 1945, can now double our annual gross national product increase rate. Erhard and Adenauer certainly should be applauded for making West Germany's Marktwirtschaft stand today as the strongest European bulwark against socialist pressures...
...Patrick Jr., 37, became the first Negro member of Detroit's non-partisan city council. A World War II pilot making his debut in politics, Patrick promised to serve as "a representative of the total' community." ¶ In Bridgeport, Conn. (pop. 292,000), 79-year-old Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy was beaten by a slim 161 votes in a try for his 13th consecutive term. The winner: Democrat Samuel J. Tedesco, 42, who accused McLevy of undue conservatism and of standing pat while the city deteriorated.* But even Tedesco had regrets, saying: "I'm sorry...
Included among the signers of the statement were authors Cleveland Amory '39, John Hersey, James Jones, and Lewis Mumford. Robert B. Nathan, national ADA chairman, and Norman Thomas, former Socialist nominee for President, were also on the list...
...fallen heroes, based on revolutionary songs of the period. The fourth, "Tocsin," rising to a crashing coda, was described in a Moscow daily as "a call for tireless struggle for the highest ideals of mankind.'' The work evidently satisfied Moscow brass as a classic example of socialist realism (although that unsocialist romantic, Tchaikovsky, had been capable of similar stuff in his heavy-ordnance 1812 Overture). Last week's audience could almost see flashes of fire and smell gun smoke as the bugles sounded, the drums beat, and the entire orchestra rose to a grand finale of cannon...