Word: foes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...December 1937, while Stalin was purging Old Bolsheviks and generals, there appeared in Paris one Walter G. Krivitsky, who said he had been a general in the Red Army and had fled from Russia for his life. General Krivitsky proved to be an articulate foe of the Stalin regime. He gave out interviews declaring that the purged Bolsheviks were innocent, that Stalin was betraying both the Soviet Union and the working class. Last December General Krivitsky came to the U. S. Last month he began publishing a series of articles in the Saturday Evening Post...
...avoid new taxes but to mitigate those which give businessmen a "what's-the-use" attitude. The Administration's tax man in the House, Chairman Bob Doughton of Ways & Means, echoed Mr. Morgenthau. At a meeting of Senate committee heads, Chairman Pat Harrison of Finance, arch foe of the Administration's social-control tax theories, was permitted to cry a truce on all legislation unsettling to Business. Secretary of War Woodring even made a speech last week in which he deplored "spending and taxing," apologized that spending was necessary "because we are not prepared to face...
...Masterson has permitted intimidation of students desirous of joining the organization. Certain pupils have received veiled threats that they will "flunk" if they become members of the A. S. U. The Boston School Committee, which has upheld the Headmaster's action, once more reveals itself an intolerant and bigoted foe of intellectual freedom. As at the time of the passing of the teachers' oath bill, it has again raised the dreaded cry "Moscow!" while tightening its grip over Boston's school system. The people of Massachusetts must distinguish between arbitrary and legitimate restriction of rights, and should rise to defeat...
...Iron Guards were discovered last week to have been not only hatching new plots but making new weapons. When a German-owned factory near Bucharest was raided, it was found that under an army lieutenant a crew of workmen, chauffeurs and students was making flamethrowers that would burn a foe to a crisp at 100 yards. Green shirts said they had planned to take over the Government "even if we had to burn down Bucharest...
...gibed the Berliner Boersen-Zeitung. One German leader to take public note of the fact that the U. S. is now one of the Nazis' chief opponents was Karl Kaufmann, political leader of Hamburg, who warned that the U. S., along with Soviet Russia, Nazidom's longtime foe, is "the power centre of hostility against Germany...