Word: anticommunist
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...Philadelphia two months ago a great outcry followed Leopold Stokowski's announcement that at the next Youths' Concert he would play Soviet Russia's ''Internationale." The American Legion publicly protested. Broker Francis Ralston Welsh, rabid antiCommunist, called Stokowski a Red. William Curtis Bok, the Orchestra Association's vice president, tried to smooth things over by saying that he thought Stokowski would change his mind, that "it was probably just one of those things that pop into his head...
Died. John Leslie Urquhart, 58, British mining engineer and promoter, chairman of the Association of British Creditors of Russia ($900,000,000), bitter antiCommunist; of pneumonia; in London. After the Russian revolution he plotted, fought, howled in vain for his Russo-Asiatic Consolidated Mining Trust's $280,000,000 stake in Russian copper, zinc, lead and coal. In 1923 he recouped by getting a monopoly on Turkish imports and exports. Plump, dapper and grey, he sat behind David Lloyd George at The Hague as his adviser on Russian economics...
Married. Lele von Harrenreich Young Daly, 33, widow of Marcus Daly II, son of the founder of Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; and George John Djamgaroff, onetime press-agent for Ganna Walska, head of A. B. C. News Service (antiCommunist) ; in London...
...over the soggy, rutty Finnish roads toward the Russian border. When the car ran out of gasoline 60 mi. from Russia, the kidnappers jumped out, left Dr. and Mrs. Stahlberg to walk to the nearest town. They got home safely but the country was shocked. In Finland the Lapua (antiCommunist) Movement had just succeeded in driving Communism out of the Diet after a whirlwind election campaign whose tactics included kidnapping Communists and booting them over the Soviet frontier. Dr. Stahlberg had been rumored as listed among the bootees not as a Communist but as a Progressive, oldtime...
...damaged people and the wreckage of several private automobiles. The trouble started when the Fascisti, seeing a red flag, lost control of themselves and seized the insulting emblem, tearing it to pieces. They said they were pledged to tear down every red flag hoisted in London. The Evening News, antiCommunist, nevertheless scored the Fascisti, who are far from popular in London. Seeing a grave menace to the freedom of speech, the newspapers said...