Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaking of the present situation abroad, the President has, acording to the signers, "indicated to the peoples of all democratic nations the directious from which immediate threats of war and violence are coming. These threats are coming at this particular moment not from the country while has adopted a socialist, political, and industrial position, but rather from the three countries which adhere to Nazi and Fascist militaristic ideolgies...
Down the street at the same time occurred a meeting of the Socialist U.G.T. labor unions, backers of disgruntled ex-Premier Largo Caballero, chief thorn in the Negrin Government's side. Largo Caballero controls but seven of U.G.T.'s original 42 assorted unions, has forced the expulsion of 29 others. Those 29 held a meeting of their own last week, and insisting that they were the real majority of U.G.T., voted confidence in the Negrin Government's "win the war first" program...
...Germans who voted Communist and the 7,000,000 who voted Socialist four short years ago are very much alive today and most of them have merged with the radicals of the Nazi Party who have always had such slogans as ''Labor Creates Capital." German wits long ago compared radical Nazis to beefsteak: "brown outside, red inside." In the hierarchy of the State one of the most potent radical Nazi leaders is Dr. Ley who keeps on repeating his famed postulate...
...Hungary, cannot so much as button his waistcoat without Jean's help, boasts that in this admirably efficient and self-effacing young man he has the perfect servant. What is the Mariassy family's dismay to discover that Jean has been elected to Parliament as a Socialist deputy. The first shock over, Count Mariassy is rather tickled, but his daughter (Elissa Landi) is furious. Jean continues to serve as loyal valet, but things can never be the same again. As Elissa Landi bitterly remarks: "At home Jean ties father's cravat, and in Parliament he tries...
When in 1912 a crusading parson, George R. Lunn, was elected mayor of Schenectady on a Socialist platform, he offered the job of secretary to young Mr. Lippmann. Lippmann accepted, found a few months of practical politics plenty, retired to the Maine woods to write his first book, A Preface to Politics. The book attracted the attention of the late Herbert Croly, then cogitating (with the late financier Willard Straight's backing) a U. S. liberal weekly. Croly wrote to Lippmann, urging him to sign up. When the first issue of the New Republic appeared (1914) 25-year...