Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industrial plants and mines scattered throughout France, fresh proletarian unrest appeared last week. In all some 7.000 workers "folded arms" in strikes-as compared to more than 1,000,000 few months ago when it was a case of getting wages upped and winning vacations (TIME, June 8 et seq.). The new strikes were in sympathy with the new Spanish Cabinet headed by out-and-out proletarian Premier Francisco Largo Caballero (see p. 22). In Paris an imposing delegation from the French Metal Workers' Union bearing a petition with 2,000 signatures waited on French Premier Leon Blum, demanding...
...defending Irun the proletarian militia supporting the Government, which had been deserted by most of its Army, carefully mined the terrain over which it was thought Generalissimo Franco's forces must advance. This trap was betrayed to the White forces by their sympathizers in the Government camp fortnight ago, and last week they were able to avoid it and get down to straight fighting...
...industrial Barcelona, the proletarian "Pittsburgh of Spain" and the country's only modern metropolis, last week took for its Region of Catalonia the autonomous rank of a semi-collectivist State by proclamation, acclaim and much frenzied carousing and shooting in the streets. The great city's exultant Communists. Anarchists and Socialists still were friendly to Spain's Madrid regime in theory but in practice they had carried Catalonia off by herself on the political loose. Zealots plastered up everywhere manifestoes reading PRIVATE PROPERTY IS CONFISCATED AND COLLECTIVIZED! This meant that doors of wealthy and middle class homes...
...that von Ribbentrop will have lost rather than gained by his appointment to London. He has been the closest adviser on foreign affairs of Herr Hitler, and his Berlin office, nicknamed Das Euro Ribbentrop, overshadows the German Foreign Office headed by old-school Baron Constantin von Neurath at whom proletarian Nazis sneer...
...Hall of Ambassadors of the Alhambra in Granada squatted last week marooned U. S. tourists watching troops of the Revolution taking over the proletarian quarter below. A Government air bomb fell in the garden of the Hotel Washington Irving in which six U. S. tourists were staying. Only Spaniards were killed. One, an expectant mother, convulsively gave birth to two dead babes as she expired. Later the Vicomte de Sibour, with a plane borrowed from London's Drygoods Sportsman H. Gordon Selfridge Jr. (TIME, Aug. 17), began taking off tourists, four at a time. To rescue the 19 remaining...