Word: communistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alliance men at the convention were wan, tireless President David Lasser. 36, and bespectacled, soft-spoken Secretary-Treasurer Herbert Benjamin. 37. Two-and-a-half years ago Socialist Lasser's original Alliance and Herbert Benjamin's Communist Unemployment Councils submerged their differences, merged with lesser organizations into the present Alliance. The membership (now claimed 400,000. mostly in Eastern, Midwestern and Pacific Coast cities) continually shifts as clients go on & off relief. The leadership is also in constant flux, at the moment includes such active but seldom mentioned figures as John Spain of New Jersey, Lee Morgan...
...Communists would be dullards indeed if they did not cultivate such a vineyard of the poor. Accordingly, the Alliance has to play a canny game of Truth & Consequences with hostile investigators like Congressman Martin Dies. Fact is that the relatively small Communist fraction in Alliance ranks is larger than in most trades unions. Last week in Cleveland many of the delegates lodged with local Communists. The convention barred two New Yorkers who complained that, just as the Communists have tempered their revolutionary doctrines (TIME, May 30), so has the Alliance gone milk-&-watery in its dealings with...
...broadcasting voice screamed against "the Czech mass murderers," bombarded the rest of the world with atrocity stories, invented a radio language in which the Czech army was "the Hussite mob" or the "Red Horde," the Czech Republic a soviet, Czech mobilization "Moscow's war mongering," Premier Syrovy a "Communist." Not only does radio permit nation to shout at nation, but radio can also shout a neighbor down. Germany reported a mystery station which blanketed the European air with static during Chancellor Hitler's Nürnberg speech. Similar reports charged German stations with sending out code signals...
Looking very much like a scholar and gentleman, Granville Hicks '23, the first Communist to secure a Harvard appointment, has arrived in Cambridge and is already settled in fashionable Waban. He has a wife and daughter, speaks quietly, and is impatient with the publicity created by is appointment last spring as one of the seven American History counsellors...
Announcement of Hicks's appointment in April caused a furore in Boston papers and in the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard was denounced for hiring a "Red" and encouraging "subversive influences." According to Hicks, he has belonged to the Communist party for over two years. He considers Earl Browder, its leader, "a great deal more intelligent and competent than any other political leader that I can think...