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...into the Socialist Party, and soon he was deep in Leftist ferment. When World War Objector Earl Browder emerged from Leavenworth Penitentiary in 1920, 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...
Serving his fifth term as mayor of the city of Waterbury (pop.: 98,000) and his second as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, husky, ruddy Democrat T. Frank Hayes last October got a setback galling to a political boss-his hand-picked Waterbury comptroller, Daniel J. Leary, lost an election to Republican Sherwood L. Rowland by 33 votes. Republican Comptroller Rowland took a good look at the accounts of the eight-year Hayes regime, called in State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn. Attorney Alcorn took another look, called in a grand jury...
Last week, the grand jury handed down a scandalous 20,000-word report. It charged that "millions of dollars" of Waterbury money had been spent in an illegal manner since 1930. Bench warrants were issued for the arrest for fraud of Lieutenant Governor Hayes, ex-Comptroller Leary, 24 of their henchmen and associates, including the State Commissioner of Statute Revision, several State Senators. The "rampant corruption" of which they were accused: cashing unnumbered city checks, spending city funds without vouchers, splitting fees with contractors for imaginary services, bribing State legislators (notably to get a law passed requiring...
Last week, pugnacious Premier Daladier struck back at Mussolini and behind each of his moves shrewd French observers could see the heavy hand of the French general staff. The French military clique, alarmed at the reports of German batteries emplaced in the Pyrenees along the Spanish frontier, German air bases at Burgos and Vitoria, and Italian occupation of Majorca, has now become more concerned about keeping open the frontiers to Leftist Spain than French Leftist workers...
...that point President Cárdenas increased the number of Federal troops in Potosí to 10,000, sent a squadron of observation planes ahead and himself boarded the million-dollar Presidential special "Olive Train" to investigate matters at first hand in the city of San Luis Potosí. There he publicly accused the Bull of Potosí of playing ball with the foreign oil companies, and announced the Government was ordering him to disband his private army...