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...shifted to another method. They adopted a great propaganda program to sell to the world the belief that they are merely downtrodden patriots, seeking to escape the tyranny and oppressions of Chiang Kai-shek in order to get freedom and establish democracy-just like our forefathers were in 1776. By talking about freedom and democracy and unity and so forth, and by calling all who disagree with them fascists and dictators, they have succeeded in selling to millions of Americans one of the greatest hoaxes any unsuspecting people ever bought in all history. I spent more time and effort...
Seldom in the past has a downtrodden, underdog Eli football team entered the season's finale in the Stadium with as little to lose and with as much glory to gain...
Profits of the long downtrodden railroads (TIME, April 7) rose even faster than steel earnings, almost trebled in the first quarter. Reasons: 1) carloadings were up 25%; 2) the tax-weary carriers got their first tax break in years because all but a few will escape the excess-profits levy entirely...
Some of the broad, bellylaugh stories Oscar Ameringer has to tell are doubtless the same stories he told the tenant farmers of Oklahoma when he went among them as a Socialist organizer. Angriest pages of his book are those in which he describes-and explains-the plight of those downtrodden U. S. citizens whom other upstanding U. S. citizens ("the rabble on top") turned into Okies. He moved up to Milwaukee, joined Victor Berger on the famed Leader and fought to keep that paper going (as it did) in spite of wartime persecution by Postmaster Burleson...
Rabbi Schneersohn is head of a Hasidic sect (150,000 in the U. S.) called the Habad. Hasidism is the faith which Baal Shem Tob, Polish mystic and healer of the 18th Century, offered to downtrodden Jews who had turned away from the dogmatic formalism of their rabbis. The Hasid sang, danced, took joy in his faith, felt himself close to God. At his worst a dreamy, soft-handed, mystical fellow, the Hasid became the butt of many an Eastern European joke. After the time of Baal Shem Tob there arose a Habad ("rational") Hasidism, which urged...