Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...government-owned industry. Nevertheless, in Britain, there was and still is a vague disappointment with the results of nationalization and it is highly probable that this was a hidden, but important, factor in Labor's loss of steam. ¶| Both parties promised to continue a state welfare program, which is undeniably popular with the mass of Britons. But the Labor Party is much more intimately identified with the welfare state than the Tories; the vote may indicate that large sections of the British public have begun to question the high price of the welfare state...
...during a period of unprecedented full employment and rising real wages (both partly sustained by U.S. aid). These conditions would be expected to help the party in power. That Labor suffered an undeniable setback in these circumstances indicates grave British doubts about the long-range -aspects of the Labor program. ¶ Labor almost held its own in the big cities. The Tories have made no appreciable headway among industrial workers. The increased Tory vote in rural and semi-rural areas resulted from better Tory vote-getting organization. With near-success, this improved organization can be expected to continue...
Communists. In recent months an anti-Franco front has been taking shape. Excluding the Communists, but taking in all other opposition groups, it would accept the monarchist program for a government headed by Pretender Don Juan; later there would be a plebiscite for a new Spanish constitution...
Change the Subject. After a personally conducted tour of Senora Peron's charitable enterprises, Diplomat Miller said: "No citizen of the Americas can fail to hope for the success of any program to improve the lot of the common people of the country." Reporters from the official press were not quite satisfied. An El Mundo man asked his exact opinion of Senora Peron's work. "I have been deeply impressed," said Miller. "Your visit here," continued the reporter, "reminds us of Ambassador Bruce's words that General Peron was a great leader of a great nation. What...
Anxious to visit the U.S.: Artist Pablo Picasso, 68, a member of the Communist Party in France. He said in Paris that he would like to come to Washington and present a peace program to Congress...