Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they were short-lived. With no more deadlines to meet, Foot prepared to launch a one-man war against the Conservatives. His program: 1) to pry the Labor Ministers out of Churchill's coalition Cabinet ("Come out of the Government and fight for your socialist convictions-if you still have them. If you've lost them, get out"); 2) to rub out the shame of Munich ("Anybody who was associated with the Chamberlain Government should be hounded out of public life"); 3) to capture Leslie Hore-Belisha's seat in the House of Commons ("About a year...
...Rochlen came to the U.S. as an immigrant boy, learned English by reading the late Arthur Brisbane's column and by rereading English classics he had previously read in Russian. At 17 he was earning $7 a week in a New Britain, Conn, hardware factory, and carried a Socialist Party card. He was a top West Coast newspaper reporter when he joined Douglas...
London Fabians heard another speech from Home Secretary Herbert Morrison. In it the tousled, persistent Socialist hammered down another plank in a platform which, he thinks, will insure Britain a secure place in the postwar world. His views were not necessarily those of the Government; rather, they were indicative of a wide section of British thinking. He spotlighted the deepening concern of all Britons over postwar bread & cheese...
...illness; in Oklahoma City. Ameringer ran away from German military service in 1886, tended bar in New York, learned English from a hobo, was Ted Lewis' first music teacher, painted Ohio farmers' portraits, cheerfully wrecked his career as an insurance salesman to garner 103 votes as 1903 Socialist candidate for mayor of Columbus, Ohio. Ameringer's Guardian had some 40,000 readers who agreed that modern civilization is "a bunch of naked blind men trying to pick each other's pockets with pitchforks." When Ameringer picked up his pitchfork against the Axis in post-Pearl Harbor...
...their Mohammedan citizens, a Moslem congress has been convened at Tashkent, capital of the Soviet Republic of Uzbek. The congress chose as leader of Russia's Mohammedans 82-year-old Ichan Babachan Abdumadchiktchanow. It also called upon all Mohammedans in the Uzbek, Tajik, Turkomen, Kirghiz and Kazak Soviet Socialist Republics to "wage a merciless fight against the German usurpers...