Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kindly and courteous acts. Neither ever expected anything from me for their many courtesies." Informed of her good fortune, pretty Mrs. Kniskern was too dazed to speak. Said William Reilly, now a $52-a-month hospital attendant whose luck has grown steadily worse: "Now that I'm a capitalist, I hope this Hitler drops dead." Reward In Cincinnati, the Traffic Safety Council decided to reward motorists who perform outstanding acts of courtesy and consideration. The reward (to be given each week to the city's most courteous motorists) : an orchid...
...revolution of 1917 put a stop to all this. Zealous Bolsheviks liquidated Capitalist Koussevitzky's self-endowed orchestra and publishing house, offered him instead the post of Russia's musical head man. He declined, though he accepted for a time the conductorship of Petrograd's State Orchestra, where his dictatorial instincts were continually curbed by bureaucratic rules & regulations. Once officers of the GPU caught him attempting to escape to Estonia. When he did finally succeed in getting a passport to leave the country, he abandoned virtually all of his money and personal property to the Soviet Government...
...Mexico City refuge and pledged to silence on matters affecting Mexico, almost burst with anxiety at all these developments last week. What the Great Exile was thinking was meanwhile mirrored by his landlord, Diego Rivera, who took time out from painting a mural for a Pittsburgh capitalist to issue awful warnings: "Lombardo Toledano has closely intertwined his fate with that of the Soviet oligarchy in the Kremlin. From there he receives instructions and all kinds of aid. For Moscow it is a question of transforming the workers' organizations of all America into an obedient instrument of Joseph Stalin...
...Deal is a sincere, businesslike experiment by President Roosevelt, who hopes, by using standard, capitalistic methods of taxation (all the traffic will bear) to pay the costs, to put the capitalist system (Capitalism) back on its legs once more after having suffered at least 15 major strokes of business paralysis or depressions previously, through many decades and by a score of ad ministrations of both Democratic and Republican presidents...
...gone stale, down to his last $391.23, Philip Whitlock abandons his retreat in the Canadian woods, goes to visit the Marstons, owners of the wire factory in a one-industry town in Connecticut, and stays on in their guest house. The fateful Marstons are a gruesome miniature of the capitalist world as left-wing thinkers see it. After seeing a great deal of it, Philip decides this environment is too much for him. But on the day he intends to clear out for Oregon he gets involved in an eviction, lands in the hospital with a fractured skull...