Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual when British Labor and Capital try to get together, they were baited, last week, by fiery Communist "Emperor" A. J. Cook, recent active generalissimo of the collapsed General Strike. He, discredited, little heeded, stormed: "An absolute farce! . . . The employers want us to sign a new creed of copartnership, co-operation and good-will forever. It is not economics they want, but theology and a doxology...
...Davidovitch Trotsky and the 99 other prominent Opposition leaders who were recently expelled from the Communist Party (TIME, Dec. 26) were further expelled, last week, from the Union Central Executive Committee or acting legislature of the Soviet Union. Expulsion was voted unanimously by the 21 members of the potent Presidium or Standing Committee, which held that: "Persons expelled from the Communist Party are not fit to be members of the legislature." A similar act in the U. S. would be for the Republican Party (having suppressed all other parties) to expell from Congress even the "Insurgent Republicans...
...honorary title possessed only by members of the Communist Party...
...ministers, who had congregated in Manhattan from all parts of the U. S., next visited the headquarters of the Communist party where they heard Harry W. Wicks, an editor of The Daily Worker making a speech. First he assailed preachers for their failure to take an active interest in labor problems; then he began to speak about famed clergyman John Roach Straton: "He is the most palpable ignoramus in the U. S.!" said H. W. Wycks. Then he added, "Fortunately, there are not many like him." The 40 ministers said, "Thank God for that...
Soviet Union. The nominal parliamentary and executive bodies of the Soviet Union are actually controlled by the Communist party?the only one permitted to exist?and this is directed by a "political boss," Josef Vissarionovitch Stalin, who abstains from exercising public office but is the all-powerful Dictator of Russia. The Soviet Union is technically "a federation of constituent republics," and its far flung administrative network is exceeded in scope only by that of the British Empire. At present Dictator Stalin is pursuing a moderate and conciliatory foreign policy...