Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the passing of George Norris, Homer Bone has been the Senate's leading public power advocate. He has an almost pathological hatred for private utilities; in his home State he has fought them as a candidate on the Socialist, Farmer-Labor, Triple Alliance, Republican and Democratic tickets. Most of the time he won, and gradually he set up Washington's famed Public Utility Districts...
Died. James Hudson ("Jim") Maurer, 79, Socialist Party wheelhorse for 40 years; in Reading, Pa. In Russia in 1927, toothy, mustached, Pennsylvania Dutch Maurer told Stalin and Trotsky that the Third International was being swindled if it thought its investments in the American Communist Party would yield a revolution...
Other facts about Novelist Wasilewska were few. Soviet sources said that she was born in Cracow (1905). An old friend of the family was Jozef Pilsudski, once the head of the Polish Socialist Party's underground organization, who later became Marshal of Poland. Her first novel, The Face of the Day, was based on her youthful experiences in Poland's rural squalor. Nevertheless, she managed to go through Cracow University, where she took a degree in philosophy. She planned to teach, but unsympathetic Polish educators told her: "We want teachers, not somebody to make propaganda." So Wanda turned...
...first eleven years of its life the New Leader was the organ of the Socialist Party. Since the Party's split in 1935 into militantly Marxist and New Dealish segments, the weekly has been the voice of the New Dealish group, which calls itself the Social Democratic Federation. Social Democrats combine the pragmatism of Philosopher John Dewey (a frequent New Leader contributor) with, as their name implies, a desire for "democratic socialism." They are pro-trade union and wish there were more union leaders like the garment workers' David Dubinsky. Beyond that they disagree among themselves on pros...
...Leader's spark is sad-eyed, 50-year-old Samuel M. Levitas, who came to the U.S. from Russia in 1923, after three years in & out of Bolshevik prisons. Slim, midwestish, white-haired William E. Bohn, onetime teacher and Socialist lecturer, writes most of the editorials and a chatty, personalized column-"so there'll be something the working man can understand." Daniel Bell, 24, who was a working Socialist on Manhattan's lower East Side at 13, is an associate editor. Another is tall, grey, ex-Communist Listen Oak, who was "disillusioned" by a trip to Russia...