Word: proletarian
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...proletarian by birth is Soviet Director Coates. He was born in St. Petersburg, son of a Russianized British capitalist (woolen mills) and a half-Russian Englishwoman. He grew up in Russia, studied under Rimsky-Korsakov. Vaguely intending to become an electrical chemist, he studied in England under Sir Oliver Lodge. At 18 he returned to music. In 1914, aged 32, he became senior conductor at the Imperial Opera in St. Petersburg, stayed there until the Revolution. He did not settle again in Russia until last year. When Conductor Coates arrived in Manhattan last month he seemed thoroughly Russianized, voluble...
...Brown House" last week the Fascist leader predicted the election of only 150 Prussian Fascist Deputies, and other German estimates of course were lower. In Prussia there are potent Socialist and proletarian bulwarks, still seemingly strong enough to "Stop Hitler...
Worst of all, a good many Frenchmen who had vaguely heard of "The Man in the White Tie" understood that during the War he was a slacker and afterwards a Communist. In 1914, being already Mayor of the proletarian Paris suburb of Aubervilliers. he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies by his old constituents as a Socialist. He did not enlist in the Army. When drafted he served briefly at the front as a common poilu. His Socialist views caused him to orate directly after the War against the Treaty of Versailles. In 1919 he lost his seat...
...Stalin did not guarantee safety for exiled "bourgeois intellectuals" who may now dare to return to Russia, he hinted it. But resoundingly he declared that Russia, with Communism still her goal, must produce as fast as possible "proletarian intellectuals ... a new working class intelligentsia...
...Alexandra not been a proletarian in good standing, had she wrecked the car as an act of sabotage to hinder the success of the Five Year Plan, she would either have been shot or exiled to a Siberian lumber camp. Because she was a true proletarian, had killed one and injured six only in a girlish madcap mood, she got off with 18 months in jail. She did not get off without a scolding. Editorialized a Moscow newspaper...