Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After a critical comparison of the Soviet system with Capitalism in other countries," said Lawyer Patterson last week, "I am convinced that when the Negro masses of America come to understand more clearly the ideology of Communism they must accept it as the only genuine relief from their present plight...
...essence of Dean Donham's solution is that the U. S. must not engage in ruthless competition with Europe. To do so will result in an eventual lowering of the U. S. standard of living, in a financial prostration of the Western countries, in a spread of Communism to England and Germany, thence eventually to the U. S. with the resultant destruction of Western civilization. Against expansion by exports, he advocates a steady upbuilding of the home market, planning by business and Government to give the U. S. workingman satisfaction of his greatest intangible demand, Security. For the desire...
...except Communists will agree with his animadversions on Communism: "There is no reason to think that the Communist International will succeed as the mouthpiece of infallible truth where the great Roman Catholic Church has failed. . . . No believer that tolerance, liberty and the scientific rather than the dogmatically religious approach to problems are essential to the good life can be content with Communism however keenly he may appreciate some of its benefits...
...Honorary Consul-General of Haiti." At the Bal Boheme in Washington last year he and his party enacted in tableau the discovery of Haiti, Mr. Free man impersonating Christopher Columbus in elaborate costume and shell-rimmed spectacles. He once invited Emma Gold man, radical propagandist, to lecture on Communism in his East Orange, N. J. home but the meeting was thwarted by police. In 1918 he converted his home into a hospital for wounded soldiers, cared for 1,000 in three years. Last year in Manhattan, he entertained at a large dinner Nan Britton and her ("The President's") daughter...
...square his position on the Red issue, Chairman Fish gave a curious interview the day before his committee report was released. He said: "If Communism is a trial, so also is Capitalism. ... It is up to the Capitalist system to clean its Augean stables and divest itself of some of its manifestations of greed, inhumanity and reaction. ... I believe in Capitalism shorn of its abuses and ugly greed to exploit labor for the Almighty Dollar...