Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the annual spring competition for the Phillips Brooks House Social Service Committee, the following men were elected: Metchie J. Budka '40, Gerald Eisner '42, John A. Phinneran '42, E. Bernard Fleischaker '42, Joseph A. Hartman '41 and Philip Thayer...
...favorite daughter, Countess Edda Ciano, does not even rate as a royal lady in waiting, is ignored by Queen Elena. Moreover, it was Count Galeazzo Ciano and the scheming Edda who were personally active in bringing Italy into the German alliance, and who have since been working for a social revolution in Italy along the lines of the Nazi one in Germany. Before Adolf Hitler came into power, Benito Mussolini was willing to let things in Italy go on pretty much as they had always been...
...Head Brigade, whose main job is to guard the concentration camps. Their activities have, however, caused much comment. When the Nazis took over in 1933 Herr Himmler established his first concentration camp near Dachau, Bavaria. There, 150 unemployed members of the SS guarded some 2,000 Communists, Social Democrats and assorted dissenters whose freedom was generally regarded as dangerous to the newborn State. By the time of the June purge in 1934, the number of "enemies of the State" had increased to 7,000 and new camps, at Sachsenhausen near Berlin, and near Weimar, were set up. Other smaller ones...
...anti-Philistine insistence: that worldly success means nothing, that artistic failure means nothing, that what alone matters is man's vaulting imagination, his perdurable dream, the spiritual geography of his heart. On this theme Saroyan has composed the freest of fantasias, introducing rumbling chords of social protest, screwy dissonances, gaudy trills, touching pianissimos, mushy rubatos...
...Followers of Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin picketed radio stations which decline to sell time to the radio priest; sat in a Manhattan courtroom where a Jew was arraigned for interfering with the sale of Social Justice in the subway; heckled a Jew who charged, at a legislative hearing in Boston, that Father Coughlin uses Nazi propaganda material. Militant Coughlinites wear three kinds of buttons: one showing their leader's picture, the others the cross of the "Christian Front." The latter organization was founded by the Paulist Fathers, who disowned it when it became anti-Semitic...