Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in many factory districts throughout Austria stalwart Nazis, mostly Austrians, were busy stripping to the waist workmen known for their Communist or Socialist views, giving them the cat-o'-nine-tails. In the Jewish quarter of Vienna boys were flogged, the eyes of old men watered as their beards were jerked. Nazis spat in the faces of Jewesses, and almost everyone whether Jew or Aryan was soon wearing a swastika. Later Jews were forbidden to wear them. The arrest by Nazi pagans of Theodor Cardinal Innitzer was incessantly rumored, but his Palace ran up the Nazi flag...
...Premier and Vice Premier Léon Blum have wished for weeks that the Cabinet might fall, so that it could be reconstructed as a "National Government" without the Communists, and Socialist Blum's personal newsorgan, Le Populaire, has been rebuking Stalin harshly about the Moscow trials. When the Communists still insisted upon being friendly last week, Premier Chautemps suddenly talked of asking for powers so sweeping that no Cabinet could have got them and, when leaders of the Popular Front (Communists, Socialists, Radical Socialists) demurred, he claimed in the Chamber that without these powers he could not raise...
Revolutionary Crisis: Since last November, in view of the great quantities of arms, ammunition and bombs seized by the French Secret Service, it has been certain that there are in France sizable groups determined to overthrow the Republic by force. Proletarian leaders have not hesitated to accuse Socialist Vice-Premier Blum and Middle-Class Premier Chautemps of restraining the Ministry of Interior from making use of evidence which might condemn two Rightists, whose names are household words in France, the No. 1 munitions maker, de Wendel, and the No. 1 tire maker, Michelin. On the other hand, exasperated Frenchmen...
Politics. D'Annunzio had been elected Deputy from Ortona de Mare in 1897. Fellow legislators dubbed him "The Deputy of Beauty." He took his seat on the Right but one day the tumult and shouting from the Socialist benches impressed him. He stilled the Chamber. "I walk toward life," he announced, and in full drama crossed over to the Left. But he did not stay long, quit Socialism and politics...
...Harvard, editor of The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, a successful contributor to the Satevepost, Red Book, Collier's. Born in Ogden, Utah, the son of a Notre Dame mathematics teacher and a Mormon girl, Bernard De Voto entered the University of Utah at 17, helped organize a socialist society, left Utah in disgust when three faculty members were dismissed for unorthodox opinions. He went to Harvard, enlisted, was a lieutenant of infantry before he got back to Harvard to take his degree in 1920. He had taught for five years at Northwestern, married, published four novels that got high...