Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senators wanted to know if, as the Wisconsin Legislature had averred, he was Communistic. "I am not a Communist," Tom Amlie said. "My differences with Communism are fundamental. . . . To charge me with being a Communist . . . is just as ridiculous as charging Glenn Frank." Fear of fascism in the U. S., he said, was his reason for advocating some form of democratic collectivism involving production control...
...citizen freedom of thought and speech," the oath does not appear to deviate too far from the precepts of democracy. But, unfortunately, this law has quite a different de facto meaning when it is enforced in a community where there is strong local feeling against alien social systems like Communism and Socialism. Using the pledge to uphold the Constitution as a convenient excuse, local authorities have time and time again made this law an effective barrier against teaching any theory or fact that might tend to alter the established order. Thus in practice the Teachers' Oath has proved a menace...
...younger directors of the latest crusading organization for an American Utopia; he first saw the "light" sometime before the turn of the century. One of the objectives of the movement is to "combat and defeat all un-American movements" which O'Neil considers mainly as consisting of Communism and Fascism, but which he believes includes most youth organizations today...
...Communism-you give both cows to the Government and the Government gives you back some of the milk...
...success of Representative Martin Dies at rabble-rousing with his committee on Un-Americanism. Bob Reynolds admires Opportunist Dies. He has seized upon his issue of "isms" in the U. S. and, while liking Naziism better than Communism, he last week announced a new U. S. mass movement based on opposition to all foreign "isms...