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...shrewd Revolutionist Quinn this was just the beginning. Two months ago he demanded a constitutional convention to remove, once & for all, the "rotten borough" system. On the day the bill came up for vote, two Republicans were sick abed, three Democrats opposed it. Not to be caught napping a second time, Republicans dragged 69-year-old Senator Frank E. Payne from bed, stuck him on a couch in the Senate lounge, had a nurse prime his weak heart so that he could vote. Before Republicans or Democrats could charge each other with the old man's "murder," anxious relatives...
...claims he was framed by "the bosses" for agitating a streetcar strike, expounded his social views from the stand. Having had plenty of time since 1916 to acquaint himself with Marxian phraseology, he spoke easily of ''exploiting the workers" "working class struggle. "the historic objective." "I am a social revolutionist," he proudly declared, "one who believes all the wealth of the world should be socialized. ... I have always been in favor of the I. W. W. The President of the United States believes the same thing...
...large Tokyo department store shrewd Merchant Hikoichie Nato looked out beneath his large level eyebrows at a pug-nosed intense young man in tortoise-shell glasses who offered to sell him a fat share of a fine, ruthless, patriotic Japanese Revolution. "We need 100,000 yen ($29,000)," explained Revolutionist Tatsuo Amano, a lawyer of nationwide notoriety since he defended the assassins of Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye and Financier Baron Dr. Takuma Dan (TIME, July 10, 1933). As the merchant hesitated, the revolutionist argued slyly: "Consider the 100,000 yen you contribute to our cause as an investment. Sell shares...
...While many a Communist abroad accused Comrade Stalin of selling true Marxism down Russia's rivers. Comrade Leon Trotsky moved last week from France to Norway, thus putting himself nearer to Communist elements in Russia favorable to the overthrow of Stalin. As the world's greatest living Revolutionist, stern Leon Trotsky has paid no attention to Josef Stalin's arrest in Russia last year of the Great Exile's son Sergei Trotsky. As the Trotskys settled in Norway, Mme Trotsky, worn by the strain, released to the world Press her confession of fear that Sergei...
ALBERT EINSTEIN: Acclaimed by the world as a great revolutionist of theoretical physics, his bold speculations, now become basic doctrine, will be remembered when mankind's present troubles are long forgotten...