Word: proletarian
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Theory: The despised "private trader" who bought cheap at the market and sold dear to his proletarian customers would be squeezed out of this detestable "unproductive" occupation, forced to do honest "work" or starve...
Political Stride. Elderly, harassed Michael Ivanovich Kalinin is the puppet-President of Russia, a peasant-born figurehead (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). Some 150,000,000 peasants hope that he defends their interests in proletarian councils of the Kremlin. He tries to. But last week he was obliged to pledge his support to a policy most peasants hate, the project to exterminate the kulak or "moneyed peasant" as a class (TIME, Jan. 13). Just now this is the thing closest to the heart of cold, quiet Dictator Josef Stalin, the arch-proletarian who is also making Russia stride...
Britain's welcome to the Soviet Ambassador, though delayed, was sumptuous. Two coaches from the royal stable carried the Communist party from their hotel to St. James's. Scarlet-coated footmen were on the box, Ambassador Sokolnikov, trying to look proletarian under his silk hat, sat inside with Major-General Sir John Hanbury-Williams, diplomatic corps marshal. In the Ambassadors' Court at St. James's Palace, the Reds were met by four of the King's marshalmen in peaked caps and Elizabethan costumes (resembling a cross between the Jack of Hearts and a master...
...Revolution Day - twelfth anniversary of proletarian conquest. In the once Imperial Theatre the Soviet of Moscow had met to jubilate. On the platform stood a nervous peasant, Comrade Michael Son-of-Ivan Kalinin, the puppet President of Russia. He started uneasily when someone shouted. "Is Stalin sick or well?" He looked as though he would like to run when the whole hall began to clamor, "Tell us! Sick or well? We demand to know...
...stodgy though important speech, announcing that Soviet grain collectors in the provinces have succeeded in forcing the peasants to sell at the Government's price some eleven million tons of grain. This is 10% more than last year, will amply suffice to feed the Red Army and the proletarian population of Russia's cities throughout the winter. "Let us rejoice and sing!" cried the Peasant-President, motioning to the orchestra leader. "Once more the good Russian Land has given us plenty of bread...