Word: marxists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Tradition" is a Marxist interpretation of American literature since the Civil War, written by a Communistic professor of English at Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute. The first book to judge American literature on the basis of its recognition and treatment of the class struggle, it is a not unimportant addition to the more sober literature of the Revolution...
...Labor Party, largest in the Storting (Parliament ) but shackled by massive, bull-necked Premier Johan Ludwig Mowinckel's coalition of small bourgeois parties. Last week Norwegians voted in General Election, gave credit to Major Vidquin Quisling for having changed the Labor elephant's color from Marxist pink to the white of Constitutional monarchy...
Afraid that Major Quisling might catch them napping, as Adolf Hitler caught and destroyed the German Marxist parties, Norway's Labor Leaders abruptly changed their program. No longer battling for "the Dictatorship of the Proletariat," their election speakers in recent weeks have posed as champions of "Norwegian democracy under the Crown" of tall, gaunt, King Haakon VII. Returns from the General Election showed that this shift paid. Labor, as the champion of Constitutional monarchy, won nearly 50% more seats, while all other major parties shrank. Though still without a clear majority, Labor will hold 69 seats...
...true Communist of the most virulent sort. By a chain of irrefutable logic he showed that since Comrade Fiorello had signed his name to the roster of Professor John Dewey's League for Independent Political Action, and since that revolutionary organization had printed one or two issues of semi-Marxist doctrine, therefore "Laguardia's plans reveal a menace to our national institution, and a threat to the cardinal principles of American life." Only an unusual sense of restraint seems to have held back Holy Joe from adding a clarion call to the defense of American motherhood and the sanctity...
...several occasions, after he had taken over the procedure and cross-examined Nazis into embarassing admissions, the session was hurriedly adjourned to prevent more of it. It became so much of a habit with the prosecution to ask him if he was a Red, if he was a Marxist, if he admired the Soviets, if he advocated bloody revolution, and so forth, that he adopted a counter habit of answering repeatedly and loudly: "Self-evident!" This tactic irritated one judge very much and he interrupted one day to tell Dimitroff: "Anyone would think you believed this court was trying...