Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enthusiasm, Miss Thompson suggests: "Viennese industrialists might not only bring over their trained employes who would compete with no class of workers in existence in America, but also their lists of customers [in South America, etc.]. . . . This sort of industry does not compete with any existing American industry...
...Strachey. Cousin of the late Lytton Strachey, heir to an English baronetcy, former M.P. who in 1931 quit the Mac-Donald coalition government to join the Reds, John Strachey is a softly athletic six-footer who lectures in tails. Smoothtongued, witty, he has made himself a favorite with middle-class lecture audiences, while his Coming Struggle for Power (1933), the first and only "Party line" bestseller, made him a reputation as the nearest thing to a popularizer of the nearly unpopularizable Karl Marx...
...socialist wires crossed because they did not know what a capitalist State was all about. They said the State was "a great league of consumers," hence worked with the Government when they thought its politicians "good," sulked when they considered them "bad." Marxists said the State was a purely class instrument-"good" politicians were only capitalist politicians wearing democratic rouge. The State, says Strachey, is like a revolver-bad in the hands of a robber, good in the hands of those repelling the robber...
Howard Hopson blundered in letting his Associated Gas system buy a fat chunk of U. P. & L. Class B stock in the 1920s. when shares sold as high as $90; Class B shares are now selling at about $1 each. What is more, in receiverships, debentures come before stock. So Floyd Odium's aces looked better than Howard Hopson's kings. In any case, Bill Douglas stands to win, for Floyd Odium hastened to say that he, for one, would not appeal any "death sentence" for U. P. & L. He thought it was "good economics apart from...
Thirty-four years ago, an ardent young Russian girl named Angelica Balabanoff spoke at a Socialist meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was no new experience for her. She had left her comfortable, stuffy, middle-class home at 17; studied at Brussels, Berlin, Rome; joined the Italian Socialist Party; edited a women's paper. As a speaker she had been cheered by radicals and chased by reactionaries until she lost all self-consciousness on the platform. But during her speech at Lausanne, she was distracted by the most wretched-looking human being who had ever appeared in her audiences...