Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later: "I hear from fairly good sources that America is on the verge of Communism. . . . The sailors on the big war ships have their red flags all ready to hoist to the tune of the Internationale. If the NRA fails, there is bound to be Hell popping...
California, The resounding defeat of Democrat Upton Sinclair of Governor came as a surprise to no one but the ex-Socialist (see p. 16). Upon his election, Acting Governor Frank Merriam, with perhaps more truth than he intended, called the result "a rebuke to Socialism and Communism...
Last week a U. S. correspondent brought home an interview with U. S. S. R.'s handsome, crisp Assistant Commissar of Finance R. J. Levin. It would have been utterly incomprehensible to anyone who holds to the world-wide fallacy that Soviet Russia now practices Communism. Clearly and repeatedly Josef Stalin has said that he is "building Socialism," hopes some day to start building Communism. Communism, the ultimate objective, is a pure, lofty idea: "from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs." Socialism is merely "the union of agriculture with socialist industry . . . such as will...
Unemployment. "There will never be any unemployment under our system. There may be increased leisure for everybody, but never unemployment. When we can produce more goods than people want, then we shall have true Communism...
...prophetic rumbling. A novel without a hero. The Executioner Waits is a modern tragedy in the most present sense: its changing choruses are spoken by and for plain people, in terms as actual as last week's events. But Author Herbst is no journalistic realist, no pamphleteer of Communism. Her concern for her characters is never political or moral: she never justifies or reviles them except through their own mouths and for their own private ends. Her objectivity results in a total effect almost alarmingly potent. Though her method eschews purple passages (the description of old Anne Wendel...