Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Justice!" When Communist newspapers shrieking Miscarriage of Justice! were snapped up by workmen hurrying to their factories, an opinion rapidly sprang up that it would be better to spend the day demonstrating in the broad, tree-shaded streets of Vienna, rather than to ignore the cause of JUSTICE by laboring as usual in some humid factory...
With this proportion in mind, observers scanned afresh the statement of M. Stalin. Did he really fear an invasion by the Grand Duke Nikolai? A likely hypothesis seemed to be that Dictator Stalin was talking chiefly for home consumption. He and the Communist party cannot fail to benefit by the growing up among the Russian masses of an idea that the Communist regime alone stands as their defender against an "Alliance" headed by Great Britain...
...Mencken's coup with "Hatrack" in the American Mercury under similar circumstances, Mr. Sinclair hurried off to Boston, imitated the Mencken tactics of selling his contraband publicly and orating on Boston Common,† and of recent weeks the book has had a sale over which even a Communist might not be able to conceal his satisfaction. The Story of Oil!, like all Mr. Sinclair's stories, has appeared at length in the newspapers. Also it has been picked up and messed with for its political content by Samuel Hopkins Adams, a third-rate novelist, author of Revelry...
Suchowfu, 400 miles from Peking, was the auspicious scene upon which this alliance was struck up. Came the Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Oct. 4) whose armies, originally one with the Hankow "Communist" forces, have now conquered the Southern half of China. Then, amid cheers and bugle blasts, came the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang-an abundant fellow, massive, barrel-sized, jowled like a tiger, and last week unshaven, scowling, imperious in the pride of his new power...
...still supreme there. Marshal Feng retreated into Mongolia, consolidated his forces there, then hurried to Moscow where he allegedly obtained enormous grants of gold, supplies, arms, ammunition. Therefore it was pretty to see last week, how Marshal Feng managed to convey the impression that he is not a Communist, yet carefully did not disavow or antagonize the Soviet Government...