Word: proletarianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old publishing house of Covici-Friede last week was taken over by its printers, J. J. Little & Ives, who alone were in for a reported $103,000. Main asset of interest to creditors was Novelist John Steinbeck, ex-laborer and reporter whose tender tale of proletarian brutality, Of Mice and Men, had netted Covici-Friede about $35,000. How much Steinbeck was considered to be worth by publishers was disclosed last week when his contract was sold for $15,000 to Viking Press, which in addition gave Publisher Pascal Covici a job. (Partner Donald Friede withdrew three years...
Commissar Zverev in the course of his ringing budget speech ranged far & wide over all phases of Soviet Union life in striking phrases. There are 33,000,000 pupils in Soviet elementary and secondary schools, he declared, and the proletarian State boasts of no less than 50,000,000 bondholders. Putting in figures with broad brush strokes, Commissar Zverev reported that: 1) the State's revenues would be 125,184,000,000 rubles (of which 83,000,000,000 rubles is to come from turnover taxes); 2) the State's expenditures would be 123,684,000,000 rubles...
...THINGS ARE-Albert Maltz -International ($2}. Violent stories of the "proletarian" ilk. Best: Man on the Road, about a hitchhiking miner who has caught silicosis in Gauley Bridge. W. Va. and cannot decide whom to blame...
Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson is the breath and body of the News. Educated at Groton and Yale, he came through without a single inhibition. In his youth he was a storming Socialist. Today he is a plutocratic proletarian among publishers. Carelessly dressed, he rides the subways, goes to the movies with his two million readers...
...amending it 'Or their revolutionary right 'To dismember or overthrow it!' Whether or not A. Lincoln would use the above words right now, he did use them in his First Inaugural address in 1861. Proletarian Composer Earl Robinson has set them to music. And this week they will be used again at the opening of the Tenth National Convention of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. For the benefit of a Columbia Broadcasting System audience and as many thousands as can jam into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden a chorus...