Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raiser of Red scares is Reporter Stark, yet he was willing to put his name to the flat statement that the "Unity" campaign against Homer Martin was "directed from the New York headquarters of the Communist Party and put into motion here through the party's representatives, in association with those who follow the party's 'line.' " Spearhead of the Unity group is Wyndham Mortimer, who neither admits nor denies that he is a Communist but who is known to cleave to the "party line." An oldtime United Mine Worker, Wyndham Mortimer used to be favored...
...Lozovzky, a skyrocketing new favorite of Dictator Stalin. Few weeks ago he was a little known Soviet Trade Union official. Last week he was suddenly nominated for membership in the all-powerful Central Committee of the Communist Party and to become Leader of the Profintern. The Profintern is the Red International of Labor Unions, created in 1921 by the Comintern of Moscow, whose business is to make "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat...
...years ago Soviet propaganda drilled into Russian workers that Iftu and its leaders were proletarian poltroons, stooges of Capitalism. Such Iftu affiliates as the American Federation of Labor and the British Trades Union Congress replied by publicly abhorring Russian trade unionism as "Red" and its leaders as stooges of Stalin. The pact signed in Moscow last week ended this quarrel and made the International Federation of Trade Unions an organization of 23,000,000 Soviet affiliates and 17,000,000 other affiliates-with all that that implies. Big Leon Jouhaux seemed slated to return to Paris with increased kudos...
...Red-Shift Explained? Once enthusiastically propagated, the idea of a universe whose outer nebulae were rushing away from Earth in all directions has lately lost favor among astronomers. Evidence for the recession of the nebulae is that, when their light is broken up into a spectrum, certain lines are shifted far to the right, or red end of the chromatic scale. Smaller shifts of this sort have been observed in the spectra of comparatively nearby stars known to be moving away from the solar system...
...flapper"-TIME, Nov. 29), Manhattan's publicity-wise Arnold Constable & Co. dispatched a representative to Mrs. Garner with a dozen matronly hats, offered them to her as a gift. Valued at $169, all size 23. the assortment included a black felt brimmed model with green, lavender and red bows, a toque with iridescent feathers and odd-angled quills, a visor brimmed type with veil in front, a bumper roller with wraith of veil in the rear. Mrs. Garner refused to open the boxes, refused to accept the hats...