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President Azaña is a real Republican, but the Socialists who swept him into power in the February elections want a "proletarian dictatorship." Last week he offered the Premiership to the only Socialist leader who does not believe in revolution : Indalecio Prieto. Prieto declined it. President Azaña offered it to the Radical Democratic leader. Speaker of the Cortes Diego Martinez Barrio, who also declined. Finally he offered it to another Republican, Minister of the Interior Santiago Casares Quiroga, who for two months has had the delicate job of suppressing Socialist riots and church-burnings without making...
...about the radical New Theatre League's play contest. Bury the Dead was not finished in time to compete, but Playwright Shaw took his script to the League's Manhattan headquarters when he completed the fiery paean against war. A pair of tryouts by a group of proletarian mummers was arranged, the critics applauded vigorously, Mr. Shaw got a Hollywood contract and, since shrewd Broadway has caught on to the fact that one does not have to believe in collectivism to collect on the new vogue of social drama, it was not long before Producer Yokel, whose most...
...tried to think out her life in terms of mental and spiritual progress," agreed the proletarian Post. "The effort, it seems, betrayed...
...Foundation has concentrated lately on little ones, although few Fellowships have gone to people without a respectable body of work behind them. This year's literary crop is notable for its youth (average age: 35) and radicalism, a fact which should go far to silence ill-willed proletarian snarls that the Guggenheim Foundation is a "capitalist racket" conceived to avoid income taxes...
Taking the cue from Dr. Rice, the huge, proletarian New York Daily News forthwith launched an editorial campaign. It was criminal and foolish, said the News, to withhold from the public a full & free knowledge of venereal prophylaxis. The News soon discovered that the subject was alive with reader interest. Many of the paper's 2,900,000 purchasers wrote in to praise it for frankness and public spirit. Others denounced the paper for encouraging immorality. And a few News readers told how they had contracted tragic ailments for want of proper information...