Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outfit. The thing started five years ago, when some enterprising gentleman bought up George M. Cohan's old Tremont, installed projectors, and asked the people what they wanted to see. Letters started coming in and now they average over a thousand a week. Just to check up on the proletariat's taste, the Tremont got a New York clipping bureau to send them leading newspaper reviews. When the people say please, and the critics say no, the show doesn...
...hours of a legislative session or a six day bike race, the New York solons passed a bill banning radicals from state office. The bill defines communism as "the doctrine which advocates the destruction of the state by force and violence and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat or the advocation of the suppression of free speech...
Joseph Stalin's letter contained not only an appeal but also a statement: "The aid of the international proletariat appears to be a force without which the final victory of socialism in one country is not to be decided." That was not precisely a clarion call for world revolution but it was enough of a hint of old-fashioned Bolshevism to set off speculation on a possible shift in the Communist Party "line." For the keystone of the "line" has lately been not world revolution but co-operation with the capitalist democracies for a collective stand against fascism...
...native city a year ago during a garment strike, has been at the forefront of most of its civil commotions since. With San Antonio's police chief, she carries on a feud which has landed her in jail on countless occasions. Among the Spanish-speaking San Antonio proletariat, she is known as "La Pasionaria de Texas." Since her husband, Homer Brooks, former Communist nominee for Governor of Texas, lives in Houston, their marital life is confined to irregular weekends, but Emma Tenayuca declares pertly: "I love my husband and am a good cook...
...observers believe that the greatest threat of a turn to the Right in Mexico comes not from the disorganized conservatives and dispossessed landlords but, paradoxically, from within the Cárdenas regime itself. President Cárdenas came in on a program of "social revolution" for Mexico's proletariat which is now encountering rough weather. For three years of his six-year term he insisted he was still pointing Left. Suddenly, two months ago he pushed through measures which smack of a totalitarian state and make him virtual dictator of Mexico. In rapid succession he dissolved his and Mexico...