Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to put Chatsworth on the block, and see its treasures scattered round the world. But the young Devonshire, whose family motto is Cavendo tutus (Secure by Caution), vowed: "I will fight to the bitter end." At this point he was aided by the legal handiwork of a doctrinaire Socialist. Back in 1946 Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton, operating on the Socialist theory that "the best that still remains should surely become the heritage not of a few private owners but of all our people," set aside a $140 million fund to reimburse the internal revenue department for land...
...reserves of wealth are something of an embarrassment externally, the domestic fact of German prosperity is one reason why Germany's election campaign is so listless just a month before the balloting. Socialist Erich Ollenhauer is having a hard time working up indignation against the economic well-being achieved under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...
...days later, a vague communiqué spoke of agreement on "concrete forms of cooperation." But Tito, who insists that each Red state should work out its own brand of Communism, managed to head off any references in the communiqué to "the Socialist camp" and "proletarian internationalism," two phrases dearly loved by Moscow to indicate domination of all Communism. The communiqué's talk of "working to remove obstacles" suggested that obstacles are still there. Obviously, Tito is not lightly going to surrender any of his nine-year-old independence; just as obviously, he is still a Communist. There...
...disdain for small talk: "I want you to be the mother of my children. I have six shots ready, one for you and five for me, unless you come." She came, lived out of wedlock with him (they were married some six years later) while he edited a Socialist paper, hawked tips as a waiter ("He was a first-class waiter, fast and always impeccable"). Sighed Rachele: "Those were the best years. He had never learned to shave himself, and I used to shave him every morning...
Though the socialist-minded Indian government viewed Graham with undisguised distaste, coolly turned down his suggestion for a five-year tax moratorium on small new businesses, a dozen prominent private Indian businessmen eagerly offered to co-invest some $140,000. The Punjab National Bank offered to investigate loan candidates free of charge, promised to consider later loan requests from Graham selectees...