Word: socialistics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latest to buzz with alarms and rumors was Quito, capital of Ecuador, where President Galo Plaza Lasso was tiffing with his own party (Movimiento Civico Democrático National). Hottest rumors: 1) army officers were angry over slow promotions; 2) aviation officers were angry over delayed pay raises; 3) Socialist leaders were trying to organize an anti-government movement among noncoms. TIME'S Quito correspondent cabled: "The government is not shaky in the sense that it could fall-unless the army intervened...
...point is: that we were junking idealism. While we do plan to show the practical workings of our economy, we will continue to counteract the milk-socialist propaganda of the local pseudo-intellectuals by showing that the American way, as we see it, will give "the greatest good for the greatest number...
Finland's Socialist government did not go out of its way to make the old Socialist leader's prison term uncomfortable. He got paper and writing material from his home, also any extra food he wished. "But I had to cut down smoking," Tanner sighed to reporters. "I used to smoke five feet a day [15 four-inch panatelas]; in prison I had to be content with only five four-inchers daily." Once a week the prisoner held a conference in his cell with Socialist colleagues in the government...
...most ardent disciple, did not immediately invite the old fire-eater back into the government. Tanner declared that he would retire to his farm near Helsinki, "to write books and raise forests." Before he left Helsinki, he had one more political pronouncement. "I am proud of the Socialist Party's fight for democratic principles," the old man thundered. "The Finnish Communists must be placed where they belong. Right at the back of the stalls...
...final contest of the weekend, Robert E. Kohn '50 and J. Phillip Bahn '49, president of the Council, will meet a team of the Socialist Workers Party of Massachusetts. In an informal debate, they will support the possibility of economic security under capitalism...