Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raising its daily price to meet such increased costs as a near tripling in the price of news print, 185% increase in its labor bill and a 265% tax hike. Roberts bitterly recalled two other cases in which the Gov ernment and the Star were involved. During the late 1930s, the Star finally began to slam away at the corrupt Pendergast machine, which had given Truman his start in politics. The FBI moved in, and 259 politicos were found guilty of vote fraud and ballot-box stuffing. In 1946, the Star again struck at the Pendergast machine. But this time...
...TIME, June 16). The Justice Department remembered what had happened after World War I. Then Alfred Traeger, the former manager of the U.S. branch of Leitz (also seized by the Government in World War I), bought the company from the Government's alien property division. By the mid-1930s, Germany's Leitz again owned the U.S. company. This time, the Government barred any but U.S. citizens from bidding for the company and sold it last August to Dunhill International, Inc. of New York...
...young secretary's duties were expanded to include several important executive posts (organizing secretary, Moscow Party Committee, 1930-34; personnel chief, All-Union Party Central Committee, etc.), but he managed to remain the eyes & ears of Stalin. During the gory purges of the 1930s, Malenkov's inexhaustible memory worked late hours behind the scenes. He kept his own head so carefully below the parapet that in 1939, when Malenkov was chosen to make a minor report to the 18th Party Congress, his name was still virtually unknown to all except a few high party officials...
...1930s, however, the prime pastime at Muriel's New York parties ceased to be music. Now, like many another patron of the modern arts, Muriel began to discover "the creative impulse . . . in the field of human relations," i.e., Communism. In 1934, she went to the U.S.S.R. "to see firsthand the Russians' new way of living." Three years later, she made a visit to embattled Loyalist Spain, where she discovered that when she looked at a Spanish worker or peasant, "we could both know that we spoke the universal language of truth...
...good analysis of the curriculum advocated by Dewey's followers, Author Kuhn quoted the opinion of British Socialist Harold Laski. Commenting on the educational theories of Sociologist Harold Rugg and other progressive educators at Columbia in the early 1930s, Laski said: "Stripped of its carefully neutral phrases, the report is an educational program for a socialist America. It could be implemented in a society only where socialism was the accepted way of life; for it is a direct criticism of the ideas that have shaped capitalistic America...