Word: betrayal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the U. M. W. to see a man of that organization go out into the highways and byways of national politics and make a name for himself that is recognized throughout the country. (Pause.) But it is a matter of sorrow and regret to see a man betray the union of his youth-(pause)-for 30 lousy pieces of silver!'' Furious, Mr. Hurley rushed forward shouting objections. Neither turning head or shifting gaze, Mr. Lewis, with magnificent indifference, interjected: "Strike out '30 pieces of silver.' Let it stand 'Betray the union...
...imperfect, it at least furnished a step in the direction of a better-organized society, wherein wealth might be more equitably distributed, and no man beaten before the starts. To abandon that goal is to forsake an ideal that gave promise of realization and to betray the trust of the American people...
...Socialist Party, as history has shown, exhibits a fatal tendency to regard these concessions which in a parasitical way it has sucked from the sick body of capitalism as ends in themselves and not simply as incidental to their larger goal of socialism. And this attitude tends to betray government, for these workers' apartments, social services, and all the rest, depend on the sufferance and the health of the capitalist system. In short, the Labor Party will be led to compromise again and again on specific issues to save these concessions, and on general issues in order to save...
...mind, I think, is to be found in Mr. Creighton Churchill's "The Contemporaries of Sibelius," and very agreeable, too is the same contributor's "Variations on Several Themes." The three stories do not come off; their "ideas" are not sufficiently absorbed in the presented facts; they betray the diffidence or constraining consciousness of which I have spoken. More vigorous and independent are the book reviews; and more revealing, as one would expect, of personal adventure and direct relationship are the poems. The reviewer enjoyed the irony and careful flatness of statement of Mr. Boyle's "Stephen Martyr," and enjoyed...
...Suzanne" and "My Lips Betray" are so little alike that the dramatic critic feels sorry not for the readers, but for the puppets which were so unflatteringly calumniated. He attributes the erratum in Saturday's paper to the remarkable variations in the Hollywood Kultur.--Ed. Note...