Word: tage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sweden has been enjoying it both ways. The spirit behind Sweden's elaborate welfare state comes from a quarter of a century of Socialist rule, but the money that supports it is provided by an economy that is almost entirely capitalist free enterprise. Last year Socialist Premier Tage Erlander promised even more welfare benefits on the easy, easy. He proposed legislation to guarantee workers over 67 years old a lifetime pension amounting to two-thirds of their average earnings at the peak 15 years of their working lives. Who would pay? Why, employers would bear the costs, getting...
...handy at the frenzied bodyguard. In turn, Abdullah hurled a heavy glass ashtray at the Begum, missed, and then was at her again, still shrieking: "Fein sidi!" The uproar brought the Begum's Swiss secretary from next door, and the hotel porter and the chef d'étage came stumbling into the bedroom, pulled Abdullah off the nearly strangled Begum, hustled him outside. A doctor was summoned, and the police...
...Sweden Tage Erlander's Socialists, who have dominated Swedish politics for 25 years, returned to power with a limited mandate. The nation's 4,000,000 ballots were split evenly for and against them. Socialists gained six seats but fell short of a majority in the 231-seat lower house, will still need the help of the minuscule Communist Party (five seats) to maintain their welfare state, and put through a new program to pay everyone in retirement a pension that is two-thirds of the average of their 15 best years' salary. The election showed...
...since 1914 has Sweden had a political crisis sharp enough to force the King to dissolve Parliament. But last week the Socialist government of Premier Tage Erlander, whose party has held power alone or as masters of a coalition almost uninterruptedly since 1932, fell by an adverse vote in the Swedish lower chamber. At issue was expansion of Sweden's welfare state, which already provides more cradle-to-grave benefits than any other European nation. Following his defeat, Erlander asked King Gustaf VI Adolf to dissolve Parliament...
Rounding out the cast are Mrs. Anna Becker, Harry Bingham, Dorothea Bingham, and Tess Isenbergh. The task of most of these actors consist of circling the tage as gracefully as possible...