Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Live!) can count on getting $500 a lecture, while best-selling writers of the stature of Carl Carmer (Stars Fell on Alabama) are quoted at $200. The majority of lectures are delivered at prices ranging between $100 and $200, and in the case of impromptu readings of poets or proletarian novelists to radical groups, rates finally taper off to $5 an evening or just...
VERTIGO-Lynd Ward-Random House ($3). Woodcutter Lynd Ward's fourth and most straightforward picture-novel (others: Gods' Man, Mad Man's Drum, Wild Pilgrimage). Proletarian victims are a boy and girl from Manhattan's slums; Capitalist villain, an old man somewhat reminiscent of the late John D. Rockefeller...
When the Spanish Civil War broke out, Manuel Chaves Nogales, author of Juan Belmonte, remained as editor of a Loyalist newspaper in Madrid, although he protested that he "lacked revolutionary spirit," disapproved of both proletarian and fascist dictatorships. After four months, having "accrued enough merits to deserve to be shot by either side," he fled to France, declaring he could have no dealings with murderers "even though in our times this is a luxury that few can afford...
...public trial of Tomsky in the familiar Moscow style would have split proletarian opinion irretrievably, and his suicide smoothed the ground upon which was negotiated in six days last week the affiliation with Iftu of the Soviet Trade Unions...
...years ago Soviet propaganda drilled into Russian workers that Iftu and its leaders were proletarian poltroons, stooges of Capitalism. Such Iftu affiliates as the American Federation of Labor and the British Trades Union Congress replied by publicly abhorring Russian trade unionism as "Red" and its leaders as stooges of Stalin. The pact signed in Moscow last week ended this quarrel and made the International Federation of Trade Unions an organization of 23,000,000 Soviet affiliates and 17,000,000 other affiliates-with all that that implies. Big Leon Jouhaux seemed slated to return to Paris with increased kudos...