Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before long he was back in the U.S., hip-deep in Socialism. The money he made from his business he poured into the Party coffers, and into the Socialist New York Call. As his conscience prospered, so did his business. He started the International Oxygen Co. and once more his profits soared...
Strangely enough, the government that tied Catholics and Socialists together got its start through the Russians. At Easter-time 1945, when the Russians were driving into Austria, Socialist Sage Dr. Karl Renner, one of the country's few surviving elder statesmen, found himself in Gloggnitz, a small town 40 miles from Vienna. The Red Army entered the town, and all Easter Sunday and Monday, Dr. Renner waited for something interesting to happen. Nothing did. Bored, Renner set out on Tuesday for a stroll along Gloggnitz' Main Street. Relates Renner with massive calm: "After a while, I came upon...
...Young." If the Russians had hoped to find a puppet in Renner, they were sorely disappointed. A pure, anti-Communist Socialist, he has quietly boxed in all those left-wingers who might favor a merger with the Communists (for which Russia is pressing). Despite his age (76), Renner has taken a decisive hand in the business of his country. (Cracked one of his political opponents: "He is too young to be President...
...chances of Socialist-Communist collaboration diminished; rather, it was likely that when the assembly met a week hence, the Socialists would line up with the Christian Democrats to expedite drafting of a constitution...
...with a conscience, turns his three charges into fumbling sleuths, who, finally, get their man, if not their woman. Such concern over villains and their "just deserts' cuts the Marx Brothers out of much of the fun, giving Sig Rumann-labelled for future generations as the typical National Socialist-as many scenes as Groucho, Chico and Harpo together. And unlike Margaret Dumont, the gracious Mrs. Rittenhouse of earlier Marx Brothers triumphs, Rumann is not content to remain a foil, and Groucho must contend with him as both a Nazi and a gag-stealer. Harpo, with...