Word: setups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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World Revolution. Taking a world view-and both Stalinism and Trotskyism are simply variants on the Communist world theme-the establishment of Trotsky in Mexico is almost an ideal Red setup. As the Times of London has recently pontificated, there is reason to think that broad political developments in South American lands are now nearing the splits into Fascism and Communism which are making Europe feel strange and uncomfortable. In Europe the cleavage is now so sharp that no eminent cleaver is needed, but if Communism is to make further headway in those Latin-American republics which refuse to recognize...
Most Popular Red. In Russia the political setup has now come to such a pass that production of the Soviet Encyclopedia of Literature has been halted, Soviet history books printed only recently have been withdrawn from the schools by order of Stalin, and a dispatch last week announced that the Commissariats for Education were expected to put some old Tsarist history books into Russian pupils' hands again. Reason: Soviet educators can agree that the Tsarist history books are wrong, cannot agree that any history of Russia written since the Revolution is even approximately right, and cannot find an eminent...
...relatives, making unappreciated sacrifices and impossible plans. On the other side the Luth brothers are fanning a feeble flicker of business, trying to keep from taking losses, while their children make foolish marriages, family parasites drain away their incomes. A sentimental and static tale despite this promising dramatic setup, The Sound of Running Feet ends inconclusively with little more than the presentation of the dilemmas of the characters, although when Gregory's union plans fall through he decides to marry Mureth anyway. What Employer Luth's prophetic dream meant, Author Lawrence does not say, lets readers decide...
Last week the U. S. Embassy confirmed "no change" in this British setup, and kindly Ambassador Bingham is the last gentleman from Kentucky who would think of remonstrating officially with British gentlemen. His reply to Mr. Baldwin's 'ham" toast was a speech of which the keynote was: "I think this evening is one of great importance!" Afterward several chagrined M. P.'s said they had an impression that new King George and the old Prime Minister will be "completely inaccessible to Americans who come over for the Coronation...
...Banker Giannini's move there were two explanations. His was simply that Bank of Oakland was a good bank with four branches and the best location in the busy East Bay City. It fitted naturally into Transamerica Corp.'s branch-banking setup. San Franciscans had another and more popular explanation: that was the bad blood between Banker Giannini and Arnold John Mount, broad-shouldered, bespectacled head of Bank of Oakland. The purchase was spite work. Snapped Lawrence Mario Giannini, swart, enigmatic heir apparent to his father's banking empire: "Ridiculous nonsense...