Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daily supplements detailing Mission activities and one young man declared that the team's appearance had dissuaded him from suicide. Everywhere Missionary Jones was the headline speaker, driving home repeatedly his message to the effect that: "Religion is at the judgment bar. America must make her choice among Fascism, Communism, or the Kingdom of God on earth...
They have not only side problems to keep out of the picture* but a mixed group of interests to contend with: Chile and several other nations whose political sympathies are with Fascism; Mexico whose sympathies are with Communism; Argentina who wants to support the League of Nations; Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and several small nations who would like to withdraw from the League of Nations to form an American League. Almost anything might come out of this combination because the agenda are broad enough to cover two continents. They permit the consideration of creating an Inter-American Court of Justice...
...leaders of the American Federation of Labor are no hotheads. Last week at their convention in Tampa they resolved against "Communism, Fascism and Naziism" but refused to express sympathy for Spain's embattled workers. They registered protest against Yale University for ousting a pinko Divinity professor but declined to boycott the publications of William Randolph Hearst. They stamped approval on a scheme for Federal licensing of industry to regulate wages & hours, but brushed aside the question of a Constitutional Amendment to make it possible. They plumped for the 30-hour week but shied away from talk of curbing...
Last fortnight was an important one for parlor Communists and students of caricature. Two of the ablest satirists in the U. S. published books.* Apart from the artists' hatred of war and fascism, and unswerving devotion to socialism, neither books nor authors had anything in common...
...teach at the Art Students' League. Nazis did the best they could by burning his books, persistently referring to him as a Jew. Actually George Grosz is as "Aryan" as Hitler. In the U. S. he has continued his biting attack against war and fascism, is proud of his suburban house, his two sons, Peter, 10, and six-year-old Martin who expects to be a comic-strip artist (see cut), his little coupe, his U. S. clothes, proudest of all of his electric icebox...