Word: socialistics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada's high-flying socialist party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, last week hit a line squall: the provincial election in Saskatchewan. When the storm had passed, the Dominion's only CCF government was still flying, but it had been badly jolted. As a national party, the CCF had lost some of the cockiness that grew out of last month's impressive gains in British Columbia and Ontario (TIME, June...
Ever since 1944, when a former Baptist minister named Tommy C. Douglas led the CCF in a rout of the old-line parties in Saskatchewan, the province had been the CCF's show window. On display were a batch of socialist schemes: government insurance policies, socialized shoe and brick factories, a government-owned woolen mill. Government marketing boards kept close tabs on timber, fur and fish, regulated prices and methods of sale...
...total of 18, Tories one); 2) a drop from 53% to 47% of the popular vote; 3) defeat of the two cabinet ministers most directly concerned with the socialization projects. Even though the CCF was still in power, its prestige had been hard hit. Jeered the anti-socialist Regina Leader-Post: "Mr. Douglas has been given the benefit of the doubt...
...Settling the Socialist-Catholic dispute over school subsidies...
...nine-man news staff. Blimp-shaped Publisher Roy Roberts took intelligence reports from his Kansas City Star staff then retired to Suite 1206 at the Bellevue-Stratford to dictate his own stories. On the fringes were a few on-the-fringe journalists. Columnist Earl Wilson, Debutante Virginia Leigh and Socialist Candidate Norman Thomas (reporting for the Denver Post...