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...Keynesian. After helping to bring down his own Tory government in 1846 because it proposed abolishing the Corn Laws that protected Britain's landed interests, Disraeli switched to a free-trade position. He made another turnabout when, faced with Liberal plans to extend the franchise to the workingman, he steered his own election bill through Parliament. The liberalism of 19th century England was in many respects the exact opposite of 20th century American liberalism; it was essentially laissez-faire. But both Disraeli and Nixon rejected the assumptions of liberalism, then and now: a faith in utilitarian reform, an easy...
...credit, Perón gave a sense of dignity to the workingman for the first time in Argentine history. Because he ruled during the postwar boom when the treasury contained a huge foreign-exchange surplus, Perón was able to raise wages and build hospitals, clinics and schools. He passed laws granting severance pay to discharged workers and extending social security; he also instituted the eight-hour day for farm laborers. Perón nationalized the British-owned Argentine railroads, retired the entire foreign debt, and by 1947 boasted a fivefold increase in industrial production during his regime. Fraudulent...
...that tiny Denmark (pop. 5,000,000) would have too little influence on the EEC bureaucracy. Krag would have faced a difficult task in healing his party's wounds. As a graduate in economics, he has earned the respect but never the full trust that the average Danish workingman reserves for a fellow worker...
Eddie (Albert Finney) hums a lot of '50s rock 'n' roll, and the closest he has got to Vegas is a workingman's club in Liverpool, where he works as a bingo caller and occasional stand-up comic, telling what might be called shaggy canary stories to the appreciative customers. As for The Maltese Falcon, Eddie isn't so much interested in writing it as living...
Many post-election analyses pointed to the large Wallace vote and the Nixon victory as a sign that America was turning right, that the embourgeotsement of the American workingman was making him more concerned about the destruction of his property and street crime than about maldistribution of power and wealth. In fact, crime is a real concern for the workingman, white and black, and the fear of walking the street at night is generally more real in poorer neighborhoods than in rich ones...