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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indicates a lack of knowledge of this most important of all conflicts in the revolutionary movement; Stalin, the great organizer of defeats for the proletariat, who symbolizes National Socialism at the expense of the world proletariat and the world revolution, and Trotsky, who symbolizes revolutionary international socialism and the fight for world revolution. Even the most wily dialectician (and Comrades Editors, I have grave doubts that the second word in that description applies to you) could not reconcile these two diametrically opposed tenets of action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...United Automobile Workers and Federation of Flat Glass Workers unions harassed the industry's partsmaking flanks (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.}. Last fortnight Leader Lewis, demanding collective bargaining, thundered an "ultimatum" at General Motors. But, occupied as he was with a national steel organizing campaign, an internecine fight with leaders of the American Federation of Labor and the possibility of having to lead his United Mine Workers in a strike against the nation's soft coal operators, few observers believed that he would also risk a head-on clash with great G. M. Hence there was reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Prelude to Battle | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...genuine and at the same time more or less deceptive. Gentle Mr. Norris is not above personalities in debate. Modest Mr. Norris talks as often as anyone in the Senate, and tries to have the last word on every issue. Mr. Norris, who "may be wrong," in nearly every fight finds it impossible to believe that his opponents have honest motives. Disillusioned Mr. Norris never gives up a fight no matter how often it may be lost. He sticks when other Progressives in the Senate waver. All his successes are 'due to the fact that through years of weary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEBRASKA: R. F. D. to F. D. R. | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...Spanish Cabinet of Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, which fled from Madrid months ago, out of Valencia. Various airmen who flew for Largo Caballero before the bulk of his Soviet flyers arrived were trickling out of Spain last week. Said Chicago Airman Hal Du Berrier, reaching Paris: "I may fight in China next, Spain isn't to my taste. The Russians got everything into their hands in the last few weeks. Just before I left we received a new .emblem with the Soviet insignia. The stationery of the Air Ministry now has a Red Soviet star. What I cannot understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Bumping Off Parties | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...been egged on by his longtime friend and subordinate, Dr. Thomas Parran Jr. When Dr. Parran became Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service last year he declared that he intended to treat syphilis and gonorrhea like other pandemic diseases (notably tuberculosis) and fight them in the open (TIME, Oct. 19 et ante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Venereal Disease Campaign | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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