Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Masterson, in his lovable, dutiful way takes on the responsibilities of a great gentleman. From his stables he sends forth winners. He enters politics, not lightly but dauntlessly, to contest a Communist-infested slum district, which he "almost wins. Reverently, always, he rejoices in the angel, his wife...
...teaching of elementary sociology is considered the most important of the three chief elements in Soviet education. The communist leaders of Russia believe that their only hope of overcoming the unsocial instincts and personal greed of the peasants is through education. Their general plan of training thus comprises the following stages: first the child must be taken at a very early age and his social instincts fostered, then he is taught some practical science, and finally is given some idea of the theories of socialism...
...design was a brawny miner with an idea bursting from his skull. Scott Nearing, famed sociologist, just back from a trip to Moscow, Kharkov, Rostov, Tiflis and other centres of culture, limned a deplorable contrast between the mammon-ridden U.S. and progressive Soviet Russia. Robert W. Dunn, young Yale Communist, described with devastating irony the activities of a Massachusetts labor-spy. "Bad Bishop" William Montgomery Brown contributed his revolutionary blessing (and a check for $1,100 to help the sheet get started). The current Passaic garmentworkers' strike was recorded in all its gory glory by Mary Heaton Vorse...
Simultaneously the Ukrainian Soviet authorities announced that private persons will hereafter be allowed to erect small factories under their own exclusive superintendence. Heretofore such "liberty of capital" has been abhorred as flat Communist heresy...
...found them thus: John, the burntout editor of the Times, unbending before the new regime of upstart Jew manufacturers; Mildred, a proud, suffering, spent stranger in his house. John was able to make some amends to Nina. He abandoned his code to the extent of lying to get their Communist son out of jail. But neither Nina nor the boy really needed even that. They were self-sufficient. They loved him, thanked him and took their ways. John accepted an ambassadorship and invited Mildred to go with him, to live out their failure together...