Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Communist Party gave a remarkable exhibition of hauteur. Like the aristocratic Southern lady who sneered "Newspaper talk" when told that the Titanic had gone down, Party members have steadily sniffed when evidence offered at Washington charged Communists with espionage, treason, counterfeiting, slugging, murder, double-dealing, graft, wrecking, sabotage, forgery, as well as considerable mental and political confusion. Beaming over recent Russian successes in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland, Communists were in no mood to talk about the revelations of Congressman Martin Dies's Committee investigating un-American activities...
...operate to insure unquestioned obedience from members. These dread papers are pondered by Comrade Dirba in his office on the ninth floor of Party headquarters on 13th Street, Manhattan. His practice is generally to telephone the accused, usually around midnight, and say in a hollow voice, "Comrade, I would like...
...costs a lot to live in a place like this, lady...
...life were they going to? The German radio announced they had a German job to perform, that they were to repopulate some of the newly won Polish areas, where the Reich needs "settlers capable of restoring German order." They were to be given property as nearly as possible like that which they left behind. At Gdynia, the port built by the late Polish Government, 14,000 apartments vacated by fleeing Poles awaited them. There the merchant class would presumably be set to work to build up a transformed, Germanized city...
Soviet Demands. The war-ready Finns took pride in moving with snail-like slowness at the crack of Joseph Stalin's demand that they send a delegation to Moscow (TIME, Oct. 16). Instead of coming by air, as the panicky envoys of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have done, Finnish Chief Delegate Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi rolled comfortably into Moscow by train one morning. At 2:30 p.m. Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov received U. S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt who brought from President Roosevelt a personal message of "earnest hope that nothing may occur that would be calculated to affect...