Word: topic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Though the "depression" of 1954 has been a favorite topic for some Democrats, the generally improved U.S. economy is no longer a national issue. But unemployment is a local factor in some scattered districts. Example: Indiana's Third (South Bend), where the biggest employer, Studebaker, laid off more than half its force in the past year. Republican Representative Shepard Crumpacker, seeking a third term, is in trouble...
Freedom & Capitalism. Late last week the debate at Evanston reached perhaps its most significant topic: "The Responsible Society." At Amsterdam six years ago, the Council had published a report that condemned in the same breath both Communism and "laissez-faire capitalism." At Evanston last week, the Council made a sharp and heartening about-face. One of the men most responsible for the change was Delegate Charles Taft, who set up his own committee soon after Amsterdam to draft a more constructive message. Similar discussions were held in Britain, France and The Netherlands. The report...
...victory; it was too soon for even its participants to know whose defeat it would be. Adenauer in sisted desperately that EDC is not yet dead. Winston Churchill got into the act, bringing Eden back from vacation, inviting Mendés-France to fly over for lunch. Topic for discussion: the speedy return of sovereignty to West Germany...
They turned from that topic to Germany. A new approach was overdue because of France's procrastination on the European Defense Community Treaty...
...Said-Five-Thousand-Words-on -Something-Else -and -Fifteen -on -McCarthy -and -It's -Up -to -Us -to-Put-It-in-Proper-Perspective . . . These stories begin: 'The Rev. So-and-So made a slashing attack on Senator McCarthy . . . tonight. The Rev. So-and-So's topic actually was "The Need for Better Choirs in Rural Churches." At the end of his hour-long address, the Rev. So-and-So said: "That goes for Senator McCarthy...