Word: oppression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor-union curbs being considered by the House Education and Labor Committee, thundered Lewis, are nothing more than a plot to oppress the poor laboring man: North Carolina Representative Graham Barden's reform bill is "88 pages of misery," and the mild Kennedy reform bill (TIME, May 4) is "66 pages of misery that is not quite so strong." As for Senator John McClellan's investigation of labor-management racketeering, it marked "a re-establishment of the principle of the Star Chamber of the Tudor and Stuart kings, with a slight touch of the Spanish Inquisition...
...white to be slaves." ¶"We would be glad to hear Mr. Eisenhower suggest to the Soviet Union that it join hands with the Americans to fight imperialism. Mr. Eisenhower could not do so because America also is now a state which wishes to have colonies, to oppress and exploit...
PHILIPPINES (19 million Christians). Chief troubles besetting the estimated 2,000,000 Protestants are about 17 million Roman Catholics, whose priests, says Gill, oppress the people and oppose the growth of Protestantism with intimidation and physical violence: and the "freehand, fly-by-night missionaries sent out by pentecostal churches, by fundamentalist societies, by their own perfervid wills." Gill also casts a skeptical eye on the nondenominational. evangelical Philippines Crusade, which sprang up in the wake of Billy Graham's 1956 tour through Southeast Asia. The evangelists, he says, are a ticking time bomb. "The doctrinal havoc, the personal tensions...
...stupid in 1954" as he was then, cried Bevan. "We shall bring upon us a third and last world war by not realizing that you cannot do anything with these revolutionaries except to work with them, help them through their difficulties, and not make it necessary for them to oppress their own people...
...generally so smug about the "plight of women?" It truly exists. If men did not oppress women, there would need be no feminists...