Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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sirs, . . . The Croix de Feu is entirely unpolitical, has no "platform" and Colonel de La Rocque has no aspirations of dictatorship a la Mussolini. . . . Its enemies are Communism and Free Masonry. (Here I remind you that Free Masonry in France has no resemblance to the very fine organization of the same name in other parts of the world. American and English Free Masons are forbidden to recognize this bastard branch of France to whose activities many dark pages in French history can be traced.) . . . Fascism is only the label given this fine organization by its enemies - a false statement...
...this was fine news for Russia in 1935, except that one of Communism's great talking points has always been against Capitalism's technique of "the speed-up." As usually described by Communists, the Capitalist bosses incite crack workers to exceed normal production, get the whole shop working faster to keep up, exhaust and exploit their workers. Throughout Russia proletarians sensed that the disguised State Capitalism of Dictator Stalin, which has already forced piecework upon Russians, is now bent upon the speed-up disguised as "Stakhanovism...
...State Comptroller. Considered their No. 1 asset by California Communists, she is gentle, generous, indisputably sincere. Red-haters call her a fanatic who has used her birth & breeding to betray her class. Of 25 candidates examined for Communist Whitney's jury only two admitted to prejudice against Communism. The rest, including five subscribers to William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, had "never formed or expressed an opinion" on the subject...
...General Doihara, closed the week's Oriental frolic on dangerous ground by proclaiming "autonomous" not the five enormous North China provinces but 25 medium-sized North China districts with a combined population of 5,000,000. He called his new "Government" the Autonomous Federation for Joint Defense Against Communism...
Like most experiments, Mother is thrilling for a while. Along about the sixth scene, however, playgoers indifferent to or agnostic about Communism begin to feel that the production is solemnly, insufferably pretentious, that the narrative of the old woman who loses a son and a husband but still gallantly waves the red flag has not been written up to its exciting possibilities...