Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critics. Said Socialist Candidate Norman Thomas, who has taken part in six campaigns: "You can carry this business of being just one of the folks too far." But the President seemed to believe that victory lay in carrying it farther. When he got back to Washington at week's end, he had traveled 8,300 miles, made 140 speeches and estimated that he had seen 3,000,000 people...
...Socialist education and political action will be counters of activity for the Harvard Youth for Democracy this term, members decided in last night's inaugural meeting...
...except for the laughs, the whole race looked satisfactorily scandalous. He described President Truman as a "shabby mountebank," Tom Dewey as a "limber trimmer," announced that Henry Wallace had manifestly lost "what little sense he had formerly, if indeed, he ever had any at all." He grudgingly admitted that Socialist Norman Thomas seemed to have some brains, but wrote him off immediately. He thought Dixiecrat J. Strom Thurmond was "the best of all the candidates," but with a final growl, he warned that "all the worst morons in the South...
When war began, Osubka-Morawski was a small-fry organizer in the left wing of Poland's Socialist Party. In the wartime underground he teamed with the Communists, went to Moscow, and returned as Socialist Premier in the Moscow-created provisional government. To repay the Reds he hatched an inept, ill-timed and abortive plot to merge his Socialists with the Communists. His blundering displeased the Communists; his intent angered the Socialists. Osubka-Morawski was demoted from Premier to the rank of Minister of Public Administration. Communist displeasure deepened when he snatched a choice government apartment coveted by Secret...
Osubka-Morawski then decided to fight the Communists; he moved over to the Socialist right wing and opposed the Socialist-Communist merger which he had once tried to bring...