Word: communistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Replying to charges in the local press that universities were "hotbeds of Communism" and that by implication, through his support of Loyalist Spain, he himself was a Communist, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, last night branded these statements as "the universal trick of all people trying to sway public opinion...
...occasion for Mather's statement was the charge by Walter S. Reynolds, Michigan Legionnaire, before the Dies committee that Professor Albert Einstein was "an active supporter of the Communist party" because he supported the Spanish Loyalists. Reynolds lumped Einstein with John L. Lewis, Harry Bridges and David Dubinsky...
...Manhattan, famed Rabbi Stephen S. Wise drew loud boos for Neville Chamberlain from 1,000 members of the United Czechoslovak Societies, declaring: "Chamberlain has not brought back peace with honor, but dishonor without peace!" Simultaneously 5,000 Manhattan high-school boys and girls of the Young Communist League marched with placards denouncing Hitler and Chamberlain until sent home by police...
...soldiers lined up to invade Czechoslovakia. The threat of Joseph Stalin fortnight ago that the Red Army would march if Poland committed "unprovoked aggression" on Czechoslovakia was no longer taken seriously by the Warsaw General Staff. Polish officers squawked, "We have called the Communist bluff!" Hungary was and acted weak. Drastically disarmed after the World War as one of the defeated nations, her present rearmament is incomplete and the Czechoslovak Army probably today could whip the Hungarian Army if the two could meet alone in battle. Events showed clearly last week how Might can make two similar cases quite different...
...when Hollywood gives its standard expose of how college students live, but the most of the situations are either so ridiculous or so close to the truth that they compel laughter. Enough in itself is the wild-eyed performance of John Barrymore as Gabby Harrigan, the governor with the Communist thatch, who makes political promises solely in order to brighten the voters' lives with anticipation. Framework for the picture's satiric thrusts is the story of an exotic senatorial campaign which is fought out by the opposing candidates' football teams, in which the Saturday afternoon crowds are the political rallies...