Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although he is himself a Socialist, Laski does not advocate a socialist platform for this country. Socialism, he feels, does not yet stand a chance of success at the polls in the United States...
...Armchair. The man in tweeds did not confine his operations to the young. He captivated Meta Berger, well-to-do widow of Victor Berger, first Socialist Congressman. Plump, motherly, highly respected Mrs. Berger was entranced by the eloquence of handsome, charming Eugene Dennis. He persuaded her to go to Russia, and she returned piping the glories of the Soviet Union. Her country home became a second home for Dennis, who settled comfortably into the late Congressman Berger's old armchair. Meta Berger died in 1944, still not disabused...
...British industries. Last week it was apparent that the Bevan group had given some ground to the go-slow faction headed by Herbert Morrison. Labor issued the first draft of the platform on which it hopes to be re-elected next year, and the gist was that the Socialist bicycle would move forward at a greatly reduced rate of speed...
London's independent Economist wrote icily: "Fustian and bromide . . . [The program] will cause some stirrings in the Socialist graveyards ..." The Liberal Manchester Guardian sniffed: "Skillful patchwork . . . but the triumphant Socialist spirit has evaporated...
College debaters won an informal decision over the Worker's Socialist Party last night in the Union when they argued the negative of the question: "Resolved, That a college education is a hindrance to the understanding of our society...