Word: communism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizen, I am naturally very much interested in the destiny of the United States as a nation. This country happens to be the leader of the free world and the main proponent of democratic ideology. It faces the greatest task in its entire history: to contain the forces of Communism and to remain at the pinnacle of world power; yet, it receives only superficial and passive support from a great number of its citizens...
...story of Charles Revson [Nov. 16] typifies a greater threat to the U.S. than atheistic Communism: it is materialistic capitalism, which bores from within, making the essence of our whole existence the almighty buck. Until the so-called successful capitalists in this country base their activities on the principles upon which this country was founded, we will indeed lose the fight for a better, peaceful world...
With such a quiet "great purpose," which is not the stuff of headlines, the U.S. could contribute to the world a clear and enduring leadership which is not the stuff of Communism...
...should not justify it on the basis of anti-Communism but on the basis of what we believe in. For this reason, we should feel under no compulsion to match every Soviet economic program but rather carry out those programs which seem dictated by our values and our purposes...
Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart junketed into the Dominican Republic, paid "great tribute" to Dictator Rafael Trujillo for his "fight against Communism." Then he told Ciudad Trujillo businessmen about an experience of his as a freshman Senator. Tangling jovially with the late Alben Berkley in a private joust, Capehart twitted the then Democratic Senator from Kentucky: "If it hadn't been for the Ohio River, there wouldn't be any Kentucky. It would all have been Indiana." Confidentially responded future Veep Barkley: "Yes, and if that were true, I would have been the Senator...