Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interruption from New York's Caroline O'Day, who pointed out that her good friend Frances Perkins was born near Boston, Mr. Hoffman suggested that it would be well if Madam Perkins "kept her mouth shut." He purported to quote President Roosevelt to the effect that if Communism broke out in the U. S., it would first reveal itself in Detroit, announced that the Russians had already renamed Detroit in honor of John L. Lewis-presumably Lewisgrad...
...Peter Maurin, onetime French hobo, whose radical Catholic Worker competes with the Daily Worker in Union Square. Radical Catholics Day & Maurin maintain a House of Hospitality and an Easton, Pa. farm commune for Catholic proletarians. What they call "the dynamite of Catholic teaching" and submit as an alternative to Communism is contained in the labor encyclicals of Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI, the most timely point being that both pontiffs agreed that workers have not only the right but the duty to organize in unions of their choice...
...sufficiently to snipe at Leader Toledano as a "Communist." This has been common Mexican talk ever since his union friends gave Toledano, a dapper intellectual, a trip to Russia to study the Soviet scheme. Leader Toledano returned first-class with the news that he had not been converted to Communism. But last week the news that Mexican Trotskyists were agitating to turn his oil strike into a general strike was enough to set him off into a Stalinist rage against "counterrevolutionary tactics...
...research in American institutions" if someone would match it two for one, President Hutchins finally found a man willing to give him $550,000. He was Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen, who two years ago was so shocked by his niece Lucille Norton's breakfast-table talk about communism that he not only withdrew her from the University but provoked a sensational legislative investigation (TIME, April 22, 1935). Of the resulting Charles R. Walgreen Foundation for the Study of American Institutions its donor observed: "If our students study and are acquainted with our own Bill of Rights, there...
President Frey of the Metal Trades Department dwelt particularly on C. I. O. as a bedfellow of communism. So doing he provoked Charles P. Howard, who is secretary of C. I. O. but was present in Cincinnati because his union, the Typographers, still belongs to A. F. of L. Said Mr. Howard bitterly...