Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the most interesting utterances on the Day of Prayer was that of Dr. Robert Russell Wicks, Dean of Princeton University Chapel, who addressed the students at Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y. Said he: "Not because we want Communism, but rather because we do not want it, we Americans must change completely our economic system. It is amazing how many people blindly assume that this capitalistic commercialism of ours is as ancient and abiding as the very order of nature. . . .* Sanctioned by industrial practice, justified by philosophy, obsessed by so-called religion, this world-wide selfishness is cataclysmic. . . . Our absorption...
Commander Evangeline Booth declaring at Manhattan: "The Salvation Army takes no part in politics and expresses no opinion on the economics of capitalism, communism or any other social system. But we declare in the most explicit terms that ... it is impossible to found or to maintain a civilization where the authority and even the existence of the Deity is denied by the State...
Pretty though this story is?spiced with the romance and intrigue in which Frenchmen revel?it is a bit too melodramatic, has great significance only as an emphatic reminder of something too often forgotten: that Socialism no less than Communism is an international movement, and that among Socialists throughout the world there is kindred feeling if not solidarity...
Forty times he has been chased by cops for taking part in street demonstrations; 20 strikes have had his help. In Boston he became an anarchist; Mexico converted him to Communism. Onetime editorial assistant to Max Eastman of the late great Masses, three years ago he became editor of the only artistic-radical magazine left in the U. S., the New Masses, in which Jews Without Money appeared serially. He has had two plays produced: Hoboken Blues, Fiesta. Says he: "Both were flops." He has also written 120 Million. He is on the board of the New Playwrights' Theatre...
...first two weeks they refuted the common objections to socialism. Communism was denounced last week. Tonight the subject is "Graft Unions vs. Labor Unions." The spell-binders are being led by Alfred Baker Lewis, former candidate for senator and now secretary of the New England Socialist Party...