Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than one candidated he will be elected anyway!" President Kalinin recently retorted (TIME, Dec. 6): "It is a grave mistake to think this. ... If in our country in a number of places candidates withdraw their names for the benefit of some candidate, it is the result of their social kinship and common political purpose. . . . It is a sign of socialism last week. Defense Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov and his Marshals and Generals of the Red Army cracked out speeches all over Russia in their hoarse, parade-ground voices, calling the election "our Mobilization!" and making vigorous efforts...
Sing us a song with social significance; There's nothing else that will do. It must be packed with social fact Or we won't love...
...Princeton Triangle Club is primarily a social institution whose largest purpose is to give the more talented members of Cottage Club, Cap and Gown and Tiger Inn a 3,000-mile booze bust around the country at Christmastime. Not all Triangle show boys are out exclusively for a good time, however, and it is this type which goes out into the cold world and becomes actors, singers and directors like James Stuart, Joshua Logan, Ned Wever, Frank Chapman, Phillips Holmes, Myron McCormick, Bretaigne Windust, Jose Ferrer. These have created in the Triangle Club a small but sound tradition of showmanship...
...Streets (Monogram), an anguished story of the slums, has moments of real understanding, but their effectiveness is lost in a confused effort to tidy up social injustice with a Lady Bountiful, a few rolls of wall paper, and the U. S. Navy. The burly boy of the streets is Jackie Cooper. A piping Skippy at 8, he is now 14, passes, with adolescent gruffness, for 16 in the film. Trying to get away from the slums, Jackie gets involved with gangsters, and when he finds little honor among thieves, joins the Navy. Meanwhile, a dark-eyed benefactress (Kathleen Burke) pretties...
...Streets takes off from the same social springboard as Dead End's, but misses its footing, comes a belly-whopper...