Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinner time the department store marchers, waving their Blue Eagle placards, were beginning to pass the review point. General Johnson, his hand raised in a continuous Fascist salute, had declared the parade to be "the most marvelous demonstration I have ever seen." Shortly thereafter, when his secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson grew ill, he took her home. But Governor Lehman still wore his smile. Grover Whalen kept banging the railing in front of him and singing "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here." The top hat of fat Mayor O'Brien still flashed its professional greeting, even after...
...their energies to other purposes. The No. 1 Socialist, Norman Mattoon Thomas, publicly warned that NRA is packed with all manner of new dangers. He fears that the minimum wages in the codes will become maximum wages, that Labor will find itself organized into unions under a Fascist state. Said he: "It may turn out to be just a case of getting milk from contented cows, with a few getting the cream off the top." The Communist attitude was exemplified last week when burly, bald, scowling Robert Minor, the party's current nominee for Mayor of New York, attempted...
...last week 40,000 armed men on the Bavarian border. Supplementing the 22,000 regulars, the force is made up of drafts from the gendarmerie and the grey-shirted heimwehr. He did not add that twelve private airplanes contributed chiefly by members of Austria's Fascist Heimwehr organization were patroling the border to shoo back Nazi planes coming over with propaganda pamphlets. He did not add that every Chancellery but one in Europe knew what sword-handy Henry Bérenger, president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the French Senate, wrote last week in the Agence Economique...
...beginning. They began last week from Asti in Piedmont south across the Ligurian Alps to the Italian Riviera. The problem was obvious: the defense of Genoa and the manufacturing cities of Italy's north from a French invasion through the mountain passes and along the seacoast. The Fascist militia was mobilized, acting in reserve for the regular troops. In the field too were little King Victor Emmanuel and Il Duce, who hurried over from his conference with Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria fortnight ago (results of which were announced last week) to establish headquarters at Garessio...
This spring and summer he has been pursuing his studies in Europe. Reports reached Cambridge that while traveling in Italy, he became involved in a violent alteration with the Fascist police...