Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary Hyde found a warm friend in Representative Hamilton Fish, chairman of the House Committee investigating Communism. Eagerly did Chairman Fish seize upon the Hyde charges as good material for his Red hunt. Declared he: "Nothing has developed recently that shows better just how far the Soviets are willing to go to carry out their doctrine and injure business and government elsewhere," promptly moved to investigate three New York brokerage houses said to have acted as agents for the All-Russian Textile Syndicate in its wheat deal...
Declared S. Stanwood Menken, board chairman of the National Security League, vociferous foe of Communism: "Everywhere I was told that the Communist Government was strong and its stability equal to any in Europe. Their economic program is being carried out with an idealism and sacrifice of which the American people have no true concept. There are 156,000,000 people in Russia and to ignore their desires, wants and governmental stability is to act the foolish ostrich with its head in the sand...
...down Andrássy Street, looting shops, smashing windows. The three most expensive restaurants in Budapest, the Edison, the Western, Weingruber's (beloved of plump monocle-eyed Ferenc Molnar) were gutted. Piling chairs, crates, table tops to make street barricades the mob raised the old polysyllabic clarion of Communism, "Long Live the Dictatorship of the Proletariat...
...agitators, dumped them over the Russian border. Kosola's prestige grew by leaps & bounds. Last month 12,000 of his followers journeyed to Helsingfors by train, motor, horseback and on foot, formed ranks, marched in military formation to the Parliament building, demanded the immediate passage of laws to suppress Communism, and to make the government more economical by halving the number of representatives in Parliament. Statesmen were impressed by the size of Kosola's army. They introduced the bills, failed to get the requisite two-thirds majority, then dissolved the Diet. Vihtori Kosola bided his time, assured of the growth...
...farmers have pledged not to employ Communists, and the industries are coming into line. We have not touched the question of Prohibition because we want a solid front. . . . Our sole purpose is to destroy Communism...