Word: movements
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...clear whether Manhattan passers-by would. Castro and his cronies (who were hard put to find a hotel willing to put them up), were told bluntly by the State Department to leave their accustomed shooting irons at home. Khrushchev and some of his puppets were denied freedom of movement beyond Manhattan (except, perhaps, for a trip to the U.S.S.R.'s estate at Glen Cove, Long Island). The reason, explained the State Department, was that security precautions could not be guaranteed in the light of the bitterness toward Khrushchev which had grown so monumental since his first visit. There...
Labor. "The goals of the labor movement are the goals for all Americans, and their enemies are the enemies of progress...
...movement gathered strength and power, Townsend got into politics with some old cronies. In 1936 he helped found the cryptofascist Union Party, with Gerald L. K. Smith, the pitchman of Huey Long's Share the Wealth program (and later a founder of the America First Party and a convicted subversive in World War II), and Father Charles E. Coughlin, priest-leader of the notorious "social justice" movement. Their presidential candidate, North Dakota's Representative William Lemke, polled a mere 891,000 out of 44,000,000 votes. Later, for refusing to answer a congressional committee, Townsend was sentenced...
Cheers over Jeers. Economists hooted at Townsend and the unworkability of his plan. But the cheers of Townsend's followers drowned out the jeers, and the Townsend Plan assumed ominous proportions as a religio-political movement with clubs in 42 states, a well-organized lobby in Washington and a Recovery Song (sample lyric: "Old folks will take their ease and have a bit of fun/And will be grateful to Townsend...
...Among many made-in-California imitations and rivals of the Townsend Plan, two achieved notable power and the support of millions of voters: Upton Sinclair's E.P.I.C. (End Poverty in California) and the Ham-and-Eggs movement, both Utopian schemes to aid the poor and aged. Running as the Democratic nominee for Governor on an E.P.I.C. platform in 1934, Sinclair got 879,000 votes to Republican Frank Merriam's 1,138,000. Ham-and-Eggs, cooked up by a radio announcer and two admen, attracted wide public support (and several notorious scoundrels), forced a special referendum...