Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eighteen thousand people jammed the hall. In the basement were some 7,000 more who had paid to hear Priest Coughlin through loudspeakers, see him for a few minutes after the main show. In the streets some 5,000 lackpenny Clevelanders cocked their ears to loudspeakers. A handful of Socialists carrying placards urging people to join the Socialist Party rather than the National Union had their banners snatched out of their hands by mounted policemen. But vendors of plaster busts and photographs of the radio priest were unmolested...
Benito Mussolini has been a Socialist, a soldier, a Fascist. Josef Pilsudski performed several flip-flops more. He was born a Polish aristocrat, at Zulow, Province of Vilna, but his family had already lost most of its wealth through participation in a brief revolt against Imperial Russia in 1864. When Josef was seven the family fortunes were wiped out in a disastrous fire. Through high school he was in constant hot water with his teachers by insisting on speaking Polish...
...Josef Pilsudski, Socialist, was an exile in Siberia, charged with complicity in a plot to assassinate Alexander III. One of the leaders of the plot was the elder brother of Nikolai Lenin, who was hanged. Exile Pilsudski was well treated by his Russian guards, even allowed to go hunting with a double-barreled shotgun...
Five years later he was back, organizing the Polish Socialist Party on Russian soil. A few years later found Conspirator Pilsudski doing in Poland exactly what Conspirator Stalin was doing in Russia proper: leading a gang of highway robbers and bank raiders whose object was to seize money for political propaganda. Even in those days Nikolai Lenin knew that Josef Pilsudski was no Socialist at heart. Said...
...more recently Columbia--show a head for plain talking and straight thinking. No one doubt the of our universities a few students believe with adolescent vehemence in communism. Here and there a professor is an stewed (or unviewed) "Red." Larger groups of students take pride in calling themselves "socialists" or "liberals," albeit most of them have no clear conception of what they mean by "socialism" or "liberalism." A number of professors undoubtedly are hypnotized by various types of socialist theories. Some of them frankly believe that the United States would be better off if instead of the present republican form...