Word: communistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enemy was a Communist, went on to expand about other labor leaders, notably C. I. O.'s East Coast leader, Joseph Curran, of the National Maritime Union...
Referring to the N. M. U. Manhattan offices, Joe Ryan declared: "I've seen half-a-dozen men come out of that Communist centre with bats." Senator Copeland asked what he meant by "bats." Joe Ryan: "I mean baseball bats for slugging." Then he added thoughtfully: "Possibly we were responsible for that because we first started using them." With perfect frankness Longshoreman Ryan admitted that his batmen had been paid with money furnished by the shipping companies to beat up Joe Curran's striking seamen...
...force without which the final victory of socialism in one country is not to be decided." That was not precisely a clarion call for world revolution but it was enough of a hint of old-fashioned Bolshevism to set off speculation on a possible shift in the Communist Party "line." For the keystone of the "line" has lately been not world revolution but co-operation with the capitalist democracies for a collective stand against fascism...
...return to revolutionary principles was at hand, there was no indication of it in the U. S. Communist Party. The Daily Worker appealed to patriotic sentiment by printing a picture of a capitalistic U. S. flag riddled by General Franco's bombers as it flew over Barcelona's Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. building. Meantime the two tiptop U. S. Communists, William Z. Foster and Earl Browder, had returned to Manhattan from Moscow, still talking collective security, which means support of Capitalist Franklin Roosevelt. Mr. Browder, who holds down the same official...
...most of its civil commotions since. With San Antonio's police chief, she carries on a feud which has landed her in jail on countless occasions. Among the Spanish-speaking San Antonio proletariat, she is known as "La Pasionaria de Texas." Since her husband, Homer Brooks, former Communist nominee for Governor of Texas, lives in Houston, their marital life is confined to irregular weekends, but Emma Tenayuca declares pertly: "I love my husband and am a good cook...