Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With unruffled Eton candor Major Stanley rose to tell the House that Britain's new Dole system, after one month's trial, has proved so unpopular with Britain's proletariat that he found himself obliged to suspend it here and now. Brave Major Stanley went further, admitted himself completely routed. In cases where the new Dole has reduced payments to individuals, he said, they would not only be upped back to their former scale but Government would give them the sum withheld last month. In cases where the new Dole upped payments, recipients not only keep what...
...down the land Anglican churchmen had come out with the proletariat for what they called a square deal, and National Government, frightened last week, were trying to give it in hot haste. None too soon. Day after Major Stanley suspended the hated new Dole regulations, famed Sheffield's silver-plating and cutlery-fashioning proletariat ran amuck around the City Hall, flung brickbats through the windows when the Sheffield City Council refused to receive a delegation of unemployed demanding still more Dole, beat up nine policemen...
...Communist Party, Comrade Lenin considered his system almost perfect. To make it utterly perfect he wrote into the Soviet Constitution that the vote of one presumably radical "proletarian" or factory worker shall equal the votes of five presumably reactionary Russian peasants, thus assuring the so-called "Dictatorship of the Proletariat." It was time, Dictator Stalin felt last week, to change the Constitution...
...first historical novelist to make extensive use of this method, but Guy Endore. U. S. novelist, employed the same technique in Babouk, his novel of a West Indian Negro. published by Vanguard Press last autumn. LEAN MEN- Ralph Bates- Macmillan ($2.50). In Barcelona during recent Spanish revolution, the proletariat fights the monarchy and visits the music halls while Francis Charing is involved with three women. Adventure moves from city streets to mountain passes...
During Hitler's climb to power the Strasser Brothers, Gregor and Otto, were his stoutest champions among Germany's proletariat. Gregor, who came to feel that Der Reichsfiührer had betrayed the German proletariat, was shot during the Hitler blood purge (TIME, July 9). Otto escaped to Czechoslovakia with other Nazis who thought they were going to be shot, banded them together in the Anti-Nazi Black Front. Recently Realmleader Hitler's personal newsorgan, VÖlkischer Beobachter, declared that Otto's secret broadcasts from Czechoslovakia were becoming "intolerable...