Word: lenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holmes selection of the four "immortals" of the present decaying age, whom he considers to be Einstein, Freud, Lenin, and Gandhi, only make one change from a smile to bursting laughter. Mr. Holmes' parlor-pseudo liberalism seems to amount to mere naivete with the added assumption that his audiences are credulous enough to be swayed by his effusions. Mr. Holmes is well qualified to compete with Will Durant in this respect...
...rewriting a "harmful" book into a "harmless" one; the refusal of Isaac Babyel to publish anything at all under present conditions. A scornful disbeliever in the Communist theory that Art must be Propaganda, Author Eastman is a Communist first but a literary man all the time. He says Lenin also thought it nonsense that bureaucrats should interfere with art. After listing the slogans ("Art is to be wielded as a weapon" et al.} of the [Communist] Artists' International, Eastman explodes: "Could any set of ideas more neatly summarize the attitude of the vicariously infantile and office-holding bigot...
...hiding myself here for fear of White Russian vengeance," said the former partner of Nikolai Lenin. "I am an old conspirator, you know. At this very moment I am plotting a Fourth International...
...went to pieces during the War, was resuscitated in 1923. Pale pink, and hated by Communists, it still exists but with small prestige. Famed oldtime members: Ramsay MacDonald; onetime Burgomaster Seitz of Vienna; Friedrich Ebert, first President of Germany. The lusty Komintern or Third International was founded by Nikolai Lenin in 1919, controls and directs Communist activities in 46 countries, despises Internationals Two and Four...
...harness makers, subway conductors, etc. etc. Prohibition, once a main subject, had disappeared. President Roosevelt appeared nine times in the Salons of America, twice in the Independents. Lincoln, always a favorite, followed Mr. Roosevelt in popularity in the Salons, was missing in the rival exhibit. There were portraits of Lenin in both shows but most were in the Independents, who also showed a picture by one Charles Goeller entitled Reconciliation, showing Diego Rivera and John Davison Rockefeller Sr. clasping hands in such a manner that each was thumbing his nose (see cut). A design for a new Rockefeller dime bore...