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...World Revolution is concerned the position of Joseph Stalin is that his left hand constantly assists the Comintern led by Dimitroff to foment World Revolution, while his right assists the Soviet diplomacy of Litvinoff to maintain nominally friendly relations with Capitalist countries. Everyone knows that Stalin and Trotsky profess to be each other's worst enemies, but notably in Spain the disruptive activity of Trotskyists was a direct prelude to the arrival and success of Stalinists who have now taken charge in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. The ambiguous relations of Stalin and Trotsky produced the highly ambiguous Moscow...
...bootleg boxing circuit which flourished in upstate New York when promoters were too poor or too parsimonious to pay for licenses, Ambers is 22, untemperamental, attached to numerous other D'Ambrosios by those ties of affection which all right-thinking young pugilists consider themselves conventionally compelled to profess. He makes his home in a Bronx apartment run for him by his sister, often drives to Herkimer for weekends with his mother, hopes to organize the nine D'Ambrosio children into a jazz band in which he will play banjo and clarinet. Last spring, one of his opponents died...
Both teams are looking forward to profitable seasons. Both profess uncertainty in the same position, the box. Ed Ingalls, who showed ability on the Southern trip, will start on the mound for the Crimson, with Gus Rook, also a Sophomore working against...
...group of strikers: "We must demand our rights. God bless you, I hope you win." They were aghast when Socialist City Attorney Max Raskin refused last year to prosecute a group of Communists arrested for creating a disturbance at a reception for German Ambassador Hans Luther. They profess vast alarm over an anti-strike-violence ordinance passed by the Common Council last autumn. This ordinance provides that if an employer refuses to bargain with his striking employes, thereby causing 200 or more resentful citizens to demonstrate around his plant for one hour on two successive days, the Mayor or chief...
...farmers came in from their chores, stomped their feet, dropped their mittens and sat down by their kitchen stoves to warm their frost-nipped hands. That day no kitchen stove in the U. S. could have thawed out the icy tongues of politicians in Washington. Politicians profess to love nothing better than a good political issue. The best political issue in a decade had just been tossed to them when Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts tore the AAAct into bits (TIME, Jan. 13). Yet the tongues of politicians were frozen stiff with fright-fright of what farmers might...