Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mencken was mentioned last fortnight by the Communist New Masses as follows: "George Sterling committed suicide about a year ago, in San Francisco, after a night spent in conversation with H. L. Mencken...
Simultaneously Manhattan's Communist monthly, New Masses, printed a car toon flaying both H. R. H. and his Afric good-will tour (TIME, Sept...
Capital punishment was established in Italy by Benito Mussolini, for a trial period of five years last year. Last week the new law operated for the first time, when a firing squad of Fascist Legionnaires shot down one Michele della Maggiore, a Communist convicted of murdering two Fascisti. This was the first execution of an Italian in peace time, since the penal code abolished the death penalty 40 years...
Missing-between San Diego, Calif., and Phoenix, Ariz.-one Nominee for Vice President of the U. S. His name was Benjamin Gitlow. He was a Communist-six feet high, a 200-pounder with black hair, swart skin, bright black eyes, long fingers, very large feet, round shoulders. His friends suspected a Klannish plot, or strong-arm work by the American Legion, which had warned him not to visit Phoenix. William O'Brien, candidate of the Workers' (Communist) Party for Governor of Arizona, began searching small-town jails through the Southwest. Suspicion pointed to El Paso, in the western...
...paper as political prejudice or smug contempt for new and radical ideas. No one is surprised to see Transcript editors acclaim as inspired every word which issues from a Republican month, dismiss with a shrug the work of advanced political thinkers, or threaten the country with imminent ruin from communist machinations. But complete as the conservative and reactionary attitude of the Transcript may usually be, it is still able on occasion to surprise the most constant of its readers...