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Since in Russia it has always been more important to know the exceptions than to know the rules, citizens of Moscow accepted with stoicism last week the revelation that in their Soviet midst a total of 1,667 Capitalist landlords have survived to harass the proletariat with extortionate rents. According to the Government Press, which professed itself scandalized, one Moscow landlady is now suing before a Red court to compel a proletarian family to pay her a bonus of 5,000 rubles for the privilege of not being evicted. When the suit appeared to be dragging on. Moscow...
...Indian mestizos who rule Mexico love nothing so much as a mural full of anti-capitalist symbolism, though they themselves number some of the richest men in North America. Last year they had Diego Rivera repaint in Mexico City's pink-domed National Theatre the magnificent fresco mural the Rockefellers had ordered out of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (TIME, May 22, 1933, et seq.). Last week the world's biggest mural project was being smeared across the walls and ceilings of Mexico City's vasty Abelardo Rodriguez Market by nine youthful painters, the eldest little more...
...Brooklyn Congregational minister, two Negroes, a correspondent for The Nation, a national women's debating champion, a War veteran. The Negroes danced with Mamie and Regina. The intellectuals informed the girls that they were on their way to make an investigation of Cuban tyranny and undercover U. S. capitalist influence in Cuba. Their particular prey was to be ''America's butcher boy in Cuba," U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. Every one of them was, moreover, the official representative of a portentous-sounding Union, League, Association, Order or Committee. And they bought drinks and talked. Mamie...
...years that he has had sole control of the Times, Harry Chandler has proved himself not only a capable newspaperman manager, but also an inspired capitalist. Back in 1899 he launched a syndicate which bought up 862,000 acres in Lower California. He and his associates built Hollywood, founded a vast agricultural colony at Calexico which produced $18,000,000 worth of cotton in 1919. He owns a 281,000-acre ranch in Los Angeles and Kern Counties stocked with fine cattle, a 340,000-acre hunting preserve in Colorado, an interest in another 500,000-acre sporting preserve...
...members of the Class of 1935 are able to understand both the capitalist and the communist, individual initiative and the common good and comprehend the assets and liabilities of each, they will prevent the necessity of a second graduation...