Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a great American communist: "Give me everything, or give me nothing...
Correspondents who cabled that no German cartoonist had dared to caricature President von Hindenburg during the recent April Fools' Day spree of lampooning German statesmen (TIME, April 11), were obliged to retract their error last week when attorneys for President von Hindenburg began suit for libel against the Communist newspaper Rote Fahne (Red Flag) because of a cartoon it published on April 1. Rote Fahne depicted a huge bull standing before three white-clad butchers, with the caption: Hindenburg in Civil Dress Reviews the Companies of Honor on Remembrance Day. Whatever this meant (and the President's attorneys...
...Author. "Jig" Cook's genius for play, rich and unashamed, was the thing that made him a great "spiritual communist." When there was little wine left in the bowl, "Give it all to me," he cried, "and I guarantee to intoxicate all the rest of you." Susan Glaspell may puzzle folk who would have withheld their share of the wine. Just when this radiant book, dedicated to "Jig" Cook's children (she has none), is published, she has remarried...
Undaunted, the feminists and their Communist leaders marched away to the house of a rich Persian merchant. His wife they suspected to be held imprisoned and frequently castigated because she had ventured to enter a bazaar veilless some months ago, had been seized by her husband's retainers, shut up in solitude. With the assistance of the Russian police, roused to investigate the Persian's house, a door was forced and the inner compound entered. At a stake set up in a pool of muddy offal was found, chained like a dog, the merchant's feminist wife...
...manner in which a mob, roused by the priests last week, set out to discipline women less docile than the ancient queen. Three women who were caught veilless were bound to stakes and exposed to a pious mob which threw stones until the women died. One youthful male Communist was likewise bound, reviled by the Ichans (Priests), and beaten to death with flails, despite attempts by the police to rescue him. Kindlers of Asia. All over the province of Samarkand and throughout Turkestan similar outbursts were provoked last week by "Woman's Day." This remote region, so long slumberously...