Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motors sit-downs which were embarrassing union leaders last week showed that plain workers, awakened to a sense of their own power, were taking the new weapon in their own hands. Aghast at wholesale seizure of private property, some jittery souls were calling the Sit-Down a step upward communism. To calmer observers, the sit-downer's fierce assertion of a proprietary right in his own job seemed more like communism's antithesis, an uncalculated species of simple anarchy. In asserting that right, the sit-downer did not lack for articulate defenders. Even Son James Roosevelt took...
Riding the crest of his legislative popularity last week, Mr. Lapointe proposed to go the League Against War & Fascism one better by founding a League of All Canadian Citizens to Fight Communism, Fascism and All Other Subversive Movements. As the parliamentary overture to this project, Minister of Justice Lapointe keynoted in the House of Commons: "I am a strong believer in the British way of administering justice. I believe in the majesty and equality of the law and I believe Canadian citizens of all classes who believe in peace and order should join hands with a view to the preservation...
...conceptions are now struggling in the world: first, the old capitalist conception, clinging to abuse of privilege; and second, a deep feeling for social justice latent in the masses. Branding this deeply just social commotion as communism is wrong...
...equally important. When they are published the world will know a sick man could not have written them. When we write letters like this [pointing] we must feel well." The two letters, on which the Pope with perfect propriety could have commanded expert assistance, were his encyclicals on Communism (No. 29) and on Nazi Germany (No. 30) issued last fortnight (TIME, March 29).* Last week Pius XI, with the pleased loquacity of a man who has come through a long illness, released encyclical No. 31, dated Easter Sunday and dealing with a familiar but still pressing subject, Mexico...
...Since 1924, when Russians began to make opera suit their ideology, there have been other extraordinary Carmcns. The gypsy is sometimes represented as a Jewess. She converts Captain Josef (Don Jose) to communism, falls in love with a Polish wrestler, dies uttering a paran the World State...