Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a millionaire socialist named Matteotti was brutally murdered by Fascists and his body flung in a ditch (TIME, June 23, 1924), there was a worker in Fascist ranks named "General" Cesare Rossi. He had been a linotype operator under Editor Mussolini and a fervent pedestrian in the historic "March on Rome." In return for his epaulets, Dictator Mussolini apparently expected General Rossi to bear in silence a large part of the responsibility for the Matteotti murder. But at a crucial moment Cesare Rossi refused to keep quiet under blame and figuratively cried "Murderer!" at the man who had made...
When domestic quarrels threaten acute physical violence, nervous householders send for a policeman to restore order. So, last week, did the Austrian Republic. Frightened by the imminent threat of civil war between Austria's two snarling private armies (the semi-Fascist Heimwehr, and the Socialist Schutzbund), the entire cabinet of Chancellor Ernst Streeruwitz, an ineffectual businessman, declared itself incapable of dealing with the situation, resigned in a body. Leaders of all political parties rushed to Vienna's police station, begged sleek white-bearded Police Chief Johann Schober to take over the reins of government...
While distributing the Socialist circular "Welcome to MacDonald" in Harvard Square early yesterday afternoon, Lawrence B. Cohen, Jr., a Sophomore, President of the Socialist Club, was arrested for violating a city ordinance, brought to the Brattle Square police station, divested of his batch of hand-hills, and finally set at liberty, after being promised a summons to the Third District Court, East Cambridge, for next Thursday...
...telephone, "by having two or three fellows run out into the middle of the street when traffic was stopped and take pictures of me. The most amusing incident of the whole afternoon occurred when a minister took one of the handbills and read till he came to the word Socialist which is near the top of the page. Then, handing it back to me, he said: 'Socialism! Young man, you should be in jail...
Your issue of the third of October contained the rumor that the so called Harvard Socialist Club or members of that organization intend to stage an Anti War, Anti Army, Anti West Point demonstration. For obvious reasons such a demonstration at such a time would be in extreme bad taste. In some measure the University acts as host to West Point, the action of these socialists, however much publicity it might gain them, would add little to Harvard's reputation for sportsmanship...