Word: capitalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explained by the fact that the expulsion was proposed and engineered primarily by those Latin American, Catholic nations to which everything that the Soviet Union stands for has long been anathema. World-wide sympathy for Finland was important, but not more so than the deep-seated hatred harbored by capitalist countries for the land of Communism. Moreover, with Germany, Italy and Japan out, the League has become more & more a unilateral organization headed by France and Britain and composed of neutrals dependent upon British and French good will. A many-sided League never did agree on any forceful action...
Hannibal Ingalls Kimball Jr., a shrewd, dynamic businessman, was the son of a Yankee-born Atlanta capitalist. In their junior year, they published a 5? guide to the Chicago World's Fair, written and illustrated by Stone. It netted $600. Before graduation they had published books by Hamlin Garland, Eugene Field, Joaquin Miller George Santayana. In 1894 they moved to Chicago. Their house organ was a little magazine called The Chap-Book dedicated to "all that is most modern and aggressive in the Young Man's literature." Within the next few years they had introduced...
...Communists the world over, including those in the U. S., took a raincheck on revolution. Object: by joining a "united front" for capitalist democracy, to make the democracies allies of Soviet Russia against Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan. Last week world Communists, including those in the U. S., turned in the raincheck, came out from behind their false whiskers, and announced that they had just been fooling: they want their revolution after all. The new Communist name for revolution is "quick transition...
...Imperialist war . . . is tearing away the veils of hypocrisy behind which the monopoly capitalists were hiding their ruthless dictatorship. . . . Thus 'democratic' America, even while it is technically neutral, forgets its liberal dream about a 'New Deal' and loses itself in a wave of reactionary sentiment. . . . Only the working class, rising in alliance with the rest of the toiling population, and taking the decisions out of the hands of the capitalist class, can prevent...
...lumberjacks and jeans, in skating skirts and golf socks, in ski pants and starched white spats, 100-odd socialites gathered last week on the rambling estate of Capitalist Oakleigh Thorne at Millbrook, N. Y. Sniffing the crisp Dutchess County air, they galumphed over the meadows, up & down hill, tripping over cornstalks, leaping heavily over brooks & briars-in pursuit of a pack of beagles who were in pursuit of a wily hare. Local farmers would never go in for such crosscountry foolishness, but if they did, they would call it a rabbit hunt. In sport parlance this mixture of old clothes...