Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William ZebuIon Foster and "Big Bill" Haywood had splintered away from the Debs Socialists, had formed "Communist" parties. Two years afterward, with Browder close at hand, they fused their factions into the Communist Party of the U. S. A., affiliated with the Third International, plunged into the underground era of Communism. Then to be known as a Red was to be hunted, beaten, jailed; to be a Red was to belong to a party of revolution, completely futile because of its own factional revolutions. Assigned to China by the Red International of Labor Unions in 1927, Comrade Browder returned...
...trend toward mysticism, which expressed itself in three smash hits (Our Town, Shadow and Substance, On Borrowed Time) as well as in some lesser fry. But all these plays, warmed by humor or pricked by wit, were far removed from the solemn fudge of the Servant in the House era, made neither God nor Death embarrassing. On Borrowed Time, though pleasant, was very likely the most overrated play of the season. But Our Town (the Pulitzer Prize play), despite a third act which got beyond its depth, squeezed so much honest feeling, poetry and humor into its first two acts...
...will to have erected at a distance of 100 ft. apart on high granite pedestals of uniform size and shape, statuary emblematical of the History of America- ranging in time from the earliest settlers to the present era, arranged in chronological order...
...before the promised new era was well launched in Europe, musical modernism was in trouble with the dictators, who objected to it as: 1) extreme individualism, 2) an unsettling symptom of unrest. In 1936 Soviet Russia joined the procession, banning as "leftist" the works of Dmitri Shostakovich, and declaring that the "formalistic ideas" of modernistic music were "founded on bourgeois musical conceptions" (TIME...
...sympathetic understanding between the forces representing the church in America and the governmental agencies." By contrast, the report cited Commissioner Collier's well-known policy of helping Indians to "turn back to their so-called ancient cultures, and to revive pagan practices and ceremonies of the pre-Columbian era." This "appears to the Christian forces of America to be a denial of the right of Indians to enter into an appreciation of their Christian heritage, implicit in their status as American citizens...