Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office hours Fernand Bouisson indulged in the three hobbies that all Frenchmen admire: he eats, with skill and discrimination; he collects pictures and rare editions; he tells funny stories in dialect. Until the riots of February 1934 he was a faithful if unimpressive member of the Socialist Party. Then he resigned m disgust, has since carefully avoided aligning himself with any political party...
...expressly stated in the new army law that no soldier in active service may be a member of a political party, the National Socialist included. At the end of his active service the conscript will join, not the Brown Shirts or other private political armies, but a new veterans' organization known as the Soldiers' League, sworn to "closest co-operation with the active troops and military authorities and loyalty by former soldiers to their War Minister, who possesses the Führer unlimited confidence...
...Germany will observe all treaties now in force, even those signed by previous Socialist German governments. Particularly, she will observe the Locarno Pact (as long as the other signatories do) and the prohibitions against fortifying the Rhineland...
...time when $2 was a good day's pay and mass production was yet unnamed, "the Ford idea" was a frontpage sensation, overshadowing Mexican war news and provoking violent controversy. The Detroit automaker was praised as an "inspired millionaire," accused of shrewd self-interest, damned as a dangerous Socialist. In seven days Manhattan newspapers carried a total of 52 columns of Ford stories. Radicals feared that Mr. Ford was buying his workers' souls with a few extra dollars per week; conservatives were concerned about employes "spending their money foolishly." And out of the deafening hubbub Henry Ford emerged...
...legs as a Laborite party organ because the millionaire publishers Beaverbrook & Rothermere knew better than the Herald's editors what the British workingman wanted to read. Elias fixed that, had its sales up to 1,000,000 in a fortnight. He repeated the feat last year with the Socialist weekly Clarion. In two months he drove its circulation from 40,000 to nearly 250,000. So long as they show a profit, he is willing to let his publications hang on to their traditional politics, like the old-style Liberalism of John Bull, the Conservativism of The People. Publisher...