Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three factions divided the Left Wing of U. S. politics. Biggest and strongest of the three was the Left's Left headed by Norman Thomas, twice Socialist nominee for President. This faction two years ago, after a bitter struggle, got the party to adopt a radical platform including "mass resistance" to war, last year agreed to a "united front" with Communists in such specific matters as May Day parades, demonstrations against Fascism and support of the unemployed. The Left's Left went to Cleveland last week already in control of the party's National Executive Committee...
...group; that the National Executive Committee had approved the credentials of the 44 Leftist delegates from New York, leaving 44 Rightists without seats. But there was a bigger division on the question of compromising with Communist methods of violence. Said Mr. Waldman scathingly of the Left: ". . . their so-called mass war resistance program is not Socialist, for it fights against one specific agency of the Federal Government, instead of attempting to get control of the entire Government by democratic means. "When they say they are against the present bogus democracy of the present system and are for a workers...
...Love Again (Gaumont British). As a vehicle for the dancing and singing of big-eyed Jessie Matthews, this musi-comedy sometimes staggers along in low gear, sometimes spins at a sparkling clip. Mass Matthews is visible and audible almost all the time in a number of elaborate sets and a variety of costumes, some of which reveal nearly all of her personable person. As Gaumont British has found...
...minister to make professional calls on members of other churches. . . . One must not malign another minister or besmirch his reputation. If all the truth must be spoken, let it be spoken in ministerial affection." To succeed President Franklin the Northern Baptists elected Herbert B. Clark, banker, of North Adams, Mass...
Died. Samuel James Guernsey, 66, longtime curator of Harvard's Peabody Museum, pioneering archeologist whose researches established the existence of a North American race antedating the Pueblo-dwellers; of a pulmonary disease; in Arlington, Mass...