Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Millville, N. J., he worked his way through Swarthmore College, played basketball and football there. Once, in a huff, he stripped off his basketball suit, marched naked from the gym. When he was an economics instructor at Carnegie Tech, he had the fortitude to take his class to hear Socialist Eugene V. Debs. At 43, he looks like a Sunday-supplement caricature of a radical...
...have no connection with the Communist Party in any way, shape or form . . . and never have had," replied Mr. Lasser, who resigned last year from the Socialist Party...
...Turkey appealed for an armistice; Belgrade, Trieste, fell to the Allies; Austria-Hungary signed an armistice; sailors of the German Grand Fleet, ordered to sea in a move of desperation, mutinied; Socialist Kurt Eisner led a monster demonstration in Munich which culminated in the proclaiming, November 8, of the Bavarian Socialist Republic; the German Majority Socialists served the Kaiser with an ultimatum to abdicate; revolution spread to Frankfort, Cologne, Diisseldorf, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Madgeburg, Brunswick; the rulers of Brunswick, Bavaria, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, abdicated; the Kaiser fled; the German Republic was proclaimed; Croatian independence was proclaimed in Zagreb; a revolt in Budapest...
...summer of 1929 in Germany there were 720,000 unemployed. That winter there were 2,000,000. Looming bigger in a new crisis was a 40-year-old World War corporal named Adolf Hitler. If he looked back on his last nine years, on the growth of his National Socialist Party, he could see gains more impressive to him than to Germany's rulers. Nine years before he had joined seven men in one of the innumerable visionary parties of desperation that post-War Germany produced. There were then seven and one-half marks in the party treasury. With...
...when he was a baby-faced revolutionist, Siqueiros organized and ran the famed Syndicate of masons and painters (Charlot, Orozco, Merida, Montenegro, de la Cueva, Rivera) who revived true fresco in America. Since the dispersal of that illustrious company, Sparkplug Siqueiros has led strikes in Mexico, preached socialist esthetics in Manhattan, fought in Spain as a colonel in the Loyalist Army. When he returned from the war last month he vowed to settle down and paint. Fortnight ago President Cardenas personally had him jugged for egging on an anti-Fascist crowd...