Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacationing in the South. After tongue-lashing the Government's relief policies, they voted by "129,958-to-21,413" to unite with other jobless unions, notably the National Unemployment Councils, Communist Herbert Benjamin's organization of radical-minded unemployed which had been staging intermittent "hunger marches" on the U. S. Capitol ever since 1931. Three weeks later, members of this new and larger Workers Alliance invaded Trenton, N. J., occupied the State House, jeered the Legislature with abandon, were finally thrown out by police for their bad manners (TIME, May 4). Last week's Harrisburg extravaganza...
...struck this oldtime Debsian Socialist against the two great enemies of militant Labor: police and hunger. "The Governor of this State. George H. Earle." barked he, ''is an honest and courageous man. and as chief of the armed and police forces of this State he will see that the workers are given their constitutional rights to organize. . . . This is a peace ful organization drive; no trouble is looked for. If the steel magnates throw the people into the streets, then the Pennsylvania Emergency Relief Board will find that these people are entitled to relief under the law." Straight...
...Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, who for seven years has run Portugal with such success as to give it one of the best records of any country during Depression. Given the fall of the Salazar regime, the way would be open to satisfy Adolf Hitler's land hunger by the passing into German hands, through purchase or otherwise, of Portuguese colonial territory in Africa. This has been vaguely discussed by London's leading newsorgans for months as though it would be a good thing, notwithstanding that Britain is the traditional friend and patronly ally of Portugal. In their...
...Home Journal, has made several cinema shorts including H2O, Surf and Sea Weed, Pie in the Sky. Paul Strand, one-time protege of Alfred Stieglitz. did a film called Redes for the Mexican Government. Leo Hurwitz has excited Leftist audiences with shorts on the "Scottsboro Boys" and a Washington hunger march...
...made his firm the semi-official organ of Britain's intellectual Left. Although Publisher Gollancz says he expects to do no better than make ends meet with the Left Book Club, its membership is thoroughly circularized with impelling Gollancz advertising calculated to whet the notoriously voracious literary radical hunger for more costly Red texts on the Gollancz list...