Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That authority was exercised recently in refusing a visa to Shapurji Saklatvala, Communist member of the British Parliament. Last year it was exercised in a different manner: Countess Catherine Karolyi, wife of the onetime President of the Republic of Hungary, had been admitted to the U. S. Soon after her arrival she was taken down with typhoid fever and her husband was summoned from England (TIME, March 2, 1925). In granting him a visa the State Department extorted from him a promise that he would make no political speeches, since he was believed to be a Communist. He arrived...
...until six years ago a social worker in San Francisco and joined the Communist Labor Party. In November, 1919, she defied the police by making a speech at the Oakland Civic Centre. She was arrested and tried. It was not claimed that she had ever advocated the overthrow of the U. S. Government, or had incited anyone to violence. None the less she was convicted by a jury (composed half of women) because of her membership in the Communist Labor Party. She was sentenced to from one to 14 years in prison. For five years her friends have supplied money...
With alarums, excursions and whoops London Reds staged an impassioned demonstration last week before Bow Street Police Court. Red flags were swished and flaunted, the Communist Anthem was chanted ferociously off key. Within the court, Britain's "war on Reds" (TIME, Oct. 26) was gathering cautious headway amid all this tumult. The noted Communists* arrested a fortnight ago were arraigned at a Magistrate's hearing, and Sir Travers Humphreys, acting for the director of Public Prosecutions, set forth the new policy of the Baldwin Government in resorting to stern measures against the Reds, as follows...
Labor Party Not Communist...
Divorced. Rose Pastor Stokes, onetime cigarmaker, settlement worker, Communist agitator, and "Russian-Jewish Poetess" by millionaire, onetime-Socialist, philanthropist, James Graham Phelps Stokes...