Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Viewing the Roosevelt landslide as representing in part the cession of "proletariat" votes to combat an envisioned close race with the forces of "Fascism" latent in Landon support, the John Reed Society last night concluded a meeting in Phillips Brooks House to interpret the results of the election...
...whereabouts of Communism's most popular commentator. According to such Red newsorgans abroad as the Manhattan Daily Worker Comrade Radek has a "dazzling talent greater probably than that of any other Communist journalist" and has ever been "a passionate partisan of the masses." Therefore last week the World proletariat was startled, to say the least, when Sovie Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky accused Prisoner Radek of "political and legal guilt" in connection with the alleged plot against Dictator Stalin. Because of the same "plot" 16 Bolsheviks were recently shot (TIME, Aug. 31), the most prominent being Lenin...
...Spain the forces of the proletariat and the landed aristocracy are very great because there is relatively no middle class. The Catholic Church is a tremendous factor in the Fascist cause because it owns approximately one fourth of all the land in Spain. It is because of this condition that we find Spanish peasantry pillaging churches in much the same manner that French revolutionaries burned the homes of the wealthy nobility. The same situation of tenant-farming that we have in the South, exists in Spain under far more extreme circumstances...
Premier Blum on his Cabinet's front bench grew visibly more and more nervous as the proletariat-pampering section of the bill was belabored by M. Paul Reynaud, long the chief advocate in France of devaluation and last week riding the crest of acclaim. Deputies and Senators who used to scoff at his ideas showed strong inclination to regard him as an expert pilot in the difficult monetary channel France must now navigate. Deputy Reynaud dismissed as of minimum importance the stabilization agreement Finance Minister Vincent Auriol had verbally obtained from U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau...
With scowls spreading on Communist faces, Premier Blum finally reached for a scrap of paper, wrote on it that his Cabinet would drop the proletariat-pampering clause, and passed it to M. Reynaud There was much bouncing of the bill back and forth between Chamber and Senate but the final result was straight defeat of the Communists and refusal by Parliament to place in Socialist Blum's hands any wide financial powers. His prestige suffered sorely. Once he bleated, "I know that I am not a weak man and that I do not lack courage." He was bolstered...