Word: socialistics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three days they nominated their presidential candidate. Although he had said he would not run again, it turned out to be Princeton-bred ('05), aging Norman Thomas, who had already carried the Socialist banner in five straight presidential elections. They picked Tucker P. Smith, an economics professor from Olivet, Mich., to run for Vice President. Then they went back home to hope and argue and wait for the recalcitrant world to come to its senses...
...Christian Social Party had beefed that a new $6,850,000 subsidy to state schools meant discrimination against "free" schools, which are mostly Catholic (TIME, May 10). Socialist Spaak's common-sense solution in overwhelmingly Catholic Belgium: a consolation prize of $1,350,000 for "free" schools. But rebellion broke out among old Socialist anticlericals. Trumpeted brass-lunged Party President Max Buset: "We are asked to concede too much." He lined up other Socialist M.P.s, predicted that the Catholics-and Spaak-would back down...
Winston Churchill's advice to Conservatives leaving for the U.S.: "When you get there you have to forget this Socialist Government of Great Britain. It is the government of Great Britain, and you do not criticize it. But when you get back, you make up for lost time." Author-Orator Churchill will also have something to say in the twelfth edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, due in November-60 entries on his debut (Franklin Roosevelt's total will rise from...
...fact that puzzles or annoys many a Marxist: that British Socialists seem to get more inspiration from the New Testament than from Das Kapital. The founder of Britain's Labor Party, the late Keir Hardie, was a serious Christian who denounced class warfare. Last week, 77 Labor members of Parliament proved that Hardie's tradition is still very much alive. Calling themselves the "Parliamentary Socialist Christian Group," the 77 published a plain-speaking pamphlet. Its theme: Christians should be in politics, and Labor should be their party...
Citing their party's record on Matthew 25: 34-40 (". . . I was an hungred and ye gave me meat"), the Socialist Christians state baldly that "the Labor Party has a good claim to be considered the Christian Party." They admit the existence of "probably a small minority" in the British Labor movement who, as Victorian rationalists or Marxian materialists, "reject the Christian idea of God." But the Labor