Word: bourgeoises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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All the Judges, most of the male spectators, were in workmen's flannel shirts. Only the prisoners wore "bourgeois clothes," dark business suits, starched collars and neat ties-the costume most calculated to prejudice Court and spectators against them.
2) Perfected a program of intervention worked out by the French General Staff to send "white armies" against Russia, upset the Soviet State, proclaim a "Bourgeois Republic."
Vanished Hopes; Bourgeois Spoils. One by one the other prisoners rose to confess. Planner Victor Larichev, until his arrest a member of the State Planning Commission, testified that he was the "treasurer" of the conspirators (who called themselves "The Counter-Revolutionary Party"), had handled some $2,300,000 in foreign...
Correspondent Lyons started with a letter to Comrade Stalin, delicately suggesting that "The world has come to regard you as hiding behind the Kremlin walls, unapproachable and scarcely human."† Undismayed by that spectacle, the Communist leader replied, also by letter, that "interviews with the bourgeois press spread more misconception...
Propaganda trials in Russia correspond to U. S. Presidential statements, serve to emphasize the Administration's notions. Last big affair of this sort was the Schachkta Trial (TIME, July 2 & 16, 1928), broadcast by radio to prove that lazy, clumsy or willfully inefficient engineers or workmen could expect harsh...