Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where schools are controlled by local boards of education, Dewey's ideas have made slow and sporadic progress. Czechoslovakia, which has a national school system, moved more swiftly. In 1929 Dr. Príhoda was appointed to head a national school reform committee by Socialist Education Minister Ivan Dérer. First step of the reformers was to start experimental progressive schools in a few cities. So rapidly did the progressive movement spread that by 1933 the Ministry of Education decreed a revision of the curriculum for the entire country, permitted progressive methods in all schools...
...what amounted to a democratic deadlock, with a few more strikes of short or long duration starting daily, it occurred to the thoroughly aware and alarmed Socialist Premier that War veterans might try to resolve the situation by turning his Cabinet out by violence. In his newspaper Le Populaire he stirringly asked them not to "descend into the streets...
...Finance Minister, Socialist Premier Blum was uneasily aware that he is the worst possible choice, from the viewpoint of those French and British capitalists from whom France must try to keep on borrowing at the rate of over 30,000,000,000 francs per year, to keep her armament program going. On the other hand, a point in the Cabinet's favor is that pathetic, inexperienced Yvon Delbos is no longer Foreign Minister, has been replaced by veteran Joseph Paul-Boncour, everlasting French delegate to the League of Nations. Like his great friend Lord Perth, who as Sir Eric...
...German Austria's celebration-weary populace worked hard last week to keep up the enthusiasm required by Naziism, their new Nazi officials embarked on what the Vienna Nazi press jokingly called "the great spring cleaning"-the wholesale purge of Jews, monarchists, Schuschnigg supporters, Socialist and Communist workers...
...taken their lives rather than Nazification. Burly, raspy-voiced Major Emil Fey, Vice Chancellor under Dollfuss and former Vienna commander of the Heimwehr of Prince Ernest von Starhemberg,* shot his wife, his 19-year-old son, then turned the gun on himself. Ruthless suppressor of the incipient Nazis and Socialist workers alike, he momentarily expected "liquidation" after the Nazis came into power...