Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lyndon Johnson, Senate Majority Leader, in a blast in the coal-mining center of Welch (pop. 6,850), called on West Virginia to elect two new Democratic Senators to replace its Republicans. He charged that the G.O.P. is running against Old Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, because they know they "can beat poor old Gene Debs, because he is dead and buried. But," cried Johnson, "they can't beat unemployment, they can't beat sickness and disease, and they can't beat Khrushchev by resurrecting a dead man-and a dead issue-and kicking him around...
Then he took off after another oracle, the late Socialist Harold Laski, who for years taught political science at the University of London. Laski, he charged, had no knowledge of how things operate in human affairs. "Laski, who could not ride a bicycle, said pretentiously and characteristically that if he only had the theory of bicycle riding explained to him, he would be able to ride it. The truth is quite simple, and has nothing to do with theory...
Conspicuously absent from the above list is the Socialist Club, formed by Reed's friend Walter Lippman. Several of Reed's biographers, in tracing his political development, have given him undeserved credit for helping organize the club. The Socialist Club itself was more interested in promoting discussion than political activity...
...immediate reaction to the reorganization came from Student Council member Tim Zagat '61, who said, "It's about time somebody investigated what the HYRC has done to the Socialist Club and the Committee to Study Disarmament." He predicted that a Council investigation of the Young Republicans would begin when the HYRC came to the Council Monday to ask a suspension of the charter of the Harvard Eisenhower Young Republican Club...
...abdicated its responsibility to espouse, attack or even examine the variety of political opinions that are the stuff of democracy. It is in the grip of impartiality gone haywire. Only two of the nation's papers-the daily Communist Akahata (circ. 30,000) and the thrice-monthly Socialist Shakai Shimpo (circ. 80,000)-advance any creed. The rest of the Japanese press has only one policy: to attack the government. The rationalization is that the government is the press's traditional enemy, must be fought even though the papers are remarkably free from official restraint...