Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge until week's end. Rest of the week had been devoted to picking a jury, a process laboriously protracted by the twelve defense attorneys. This battery, which included such well-known Labor lawyers as John F. Finerty of Washington and New York's onetime (1932) Socialist candidate for Governor, Louis Waldman, exhaustively questioned every prospective juror about his Labor views, peremptorily challenged everyone who confessed to the slightest prejudice against unions or their activities. Time & again Prosecutor Dewey leaped up to protest that no union was on trial. At week...
...group of leading news correspondents in Washington had opportunity to rush a cable to U. S. Ambassador Davies in Moscow. They asked him to tell the Soviet Supreme Court, that "In our dealings with Romm we found him a true friend and advocate of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Never once did he even faintly indicate lack of sympathy or disloyalty towards the existing Soviet Government."Prisoner Romm, when invited by Prosecutor Vishinsky to confess, did so in words as satisfactory to the state concerned as were the words of Prince Edward in his abdication broadcast. Confessed Romm...
Meanwhile in Italy the King & Queen and Crown Prince & Crown Princess entertained the Görings, and this week they were to holiday briefly in romantic Capri, always a magnet for sentimental German tourists. In the interval, boastful henchmen talked openly of "forcing the resignation" of Jewish-Socialist French Premier Leon Blum, next "detaching" France from her Soviet alliance, and finally "restoring" Britain, Germany, France and Italy to comradeship under the big tent of II Duce's recently quiescent Four-Power-Pact (TIME, April 10, 1933 et seq.). They bragged as if there were of course enough Might handy...
...Pilgrim No. 1 was Acting Secretary George Novack of the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, whose most eminent member is Socialist Norman Thomas, no pilgrim as yet. Last June the Trotskyist Communists of the U. S. merged with the Thomasist Socialists. Normally benign, Mr. Thomas becomes vehement if given opportunity to deny "the canard" that perhaps Trotsky and Stalin are not altogether sincere undoers of each other's work. In the Thomas camp it is an article of faith that Stalin, as Dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, is an enemy of "true Socialism...
...vigorous sermons in and out of a church where precedent does not allow women the right to preach. An Anglican, she first sermonized under the auspices of a rector who evaded the precedent by announcing : "The service is at an end. Miss Royden will now talk." A pioneer suffragist, Socialist sister of Shipping Tycoon Sir Thomas Royden, she was launched as an active pulpiteer by Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, who in 1917 made her his assistant at London's City Temple, "Cathedral of British Nonconformity." With Canon Percy Dearmer she founded fellowship services at Kensington Town Hall, then...