Word: karle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...athletic six-footer who lectures in tails. Smoothtongued, witty, he has made himself a favorite with middle-class lecture audiences, while his Coming Struggle for Power (1933), the first and only "Party line" bestseller, made him a reputation as the nearest thing to a popularizer of the nearly unpopularizable Karl Marx...
Mussolini was only one Socialist who disappointed Angelica in the course of her long revolutionary life, but none of the others-Trotsky, Stalin, Zinoviev. the Russian Revolutionist Georgy Plekhanov, Karl Radek-renounced his beliefs so completely. Nor did Angelica work so closely with the others as with Mussolini in the days when the future dictator was editor of the Italian Socialist Party's central newspaper. Her picture of him- brooding, explosive, egocentric, enigmatic, alternately violent and timid-is the most interesting part of My Life as a Rebel, which is a long (324 pages) record of defeats and betrayals...
...liberal" appeal of Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, July 4): "The New Deal has sit up labor boards which are executives, legislatures, prosecutors, judges, juries and executioners. It has tried to humble the judiciary and turn Congress into a rubber stamp. If this be liberalism, then King George III, Karl Marx, Mussolini and Boss Tweed were liberals...
...addressed the coffins, covered with red flags bearing the SdP insignia of the Sudetendeutsch Partei. "Fatal bullets struck you, even though you were innocent," he cried. "May your sacrifice be a guiding sign for us." Throaty shouts of "Seig Heil" punctuated the speech of Henlein's stooge, Deputy Karl Hermann Frank, as he defiantly used words from the forbidden Nazi Horst Wessel hymn and roared, "The dead shall rise again because they march in spirit with us in our ranks. Thousands will arise for every one who falls. Whenever the Führer calls on us to stand...
...before he entered Harvard, announced that it had received from him a gift of $647,700 for a research program to investigate the direct methods of harnessing solar power -mechanical, electrical, chemical. Far from being floored by the prospect of such an enterprise, M. I. T.'s President Karl Taylor Compton feels that the Institute is well equipped to carry it out. Said he: "Mr. Cabot's generous gift makes it possible for the Institute to begin a great research program in which the combined efforts of scientists and engineers . . . will be concentrated...