Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stature comparable to that of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. However much this may surprise the bourgeoisie, Communists planned it that way. This week they also planned their convention and its publicized dramatics to impress upon all U. S. minds a man, a policy, a party, a program...
With U. S. Communists today, as is always true of Left-wing groups, numbers are not a conclusive gauge of strength. The Party looks upon itself as a hard and pervasive core within a vastly larger body. Having recently embraced a program so broad that no liberal citizen could oppose it in toto, Communists now claim that a vast majority of citizens favor it. For instance, a poll of 418 authors discloses that only California's Gertrude Atherton espouses Francisco Franco's cause. Communists are pleased, for they espouse the cause of Loyalist Spain. President Roosevelt frowns vaguely...
...Program is to be embodied this week in a master resolution and in U. S. Communists' first generally published constitution. Both were drafted by the National (formerly Central) Committee and the Polbureau, were then O.K.'d by State conventions. Chief object of both documents is to put down in black and white the Reds' assurance that they mean well by all good Democrats, harm to none. Constitutional excerpts...
...most, U. S. Communists ask their willing and unwilling allies to unite upon a 17-point program, extending from soak-the-rich taxation to equal rights for Negroes (who in several big cities lend the Party considerable support). The gist of the program is condensed in the Party's No. 1 Slogan: "For Jobs, Security, Democracy, and Peace." As a minimum basis for democratic coalition, Communists propose: 1) support the bulk of Franklin Roosevelt's domestic policy; 2) bring to bear all possible pressure for abandonment of his hands-off neutrality policy; 3) collaborate with France and Soviet...
...Student Council resolution read, "The Student Council endorses the Debating Council's program for inter-House debating, and recommends that the Debating Council make use of the library staffs in the Houses for coaching as far as possible...