Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other Asiatic dictator, Joseph Stalin, gave to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics "the world's most democratic constitution"-except that it is the very reverse of that, a windy mockery which leaves the Stalin Dictatorship unimpaired. In France the year brought the first Cabinet headed by a Socialist that country has ever had, but Premier Leon Blum and his "New Deal" have brought a series of nationwide strikes and political headaches. Adolf Hitler in 1936 tore up the last shreds of the Treaty of Versailles, but Der Führer has yet to grapple with an external...
...Year I nominate Leon Blum, Premier of France, who, although a professional Socialist, seems to have become the most active champion of democracy in Europe...
Said Senator Wheeler: "I suggest you get a member of the Socialist National Committee and then you will get them coming and going...
Died. Mrs. Katherine Metzel Debs, 79, widow of Socialist Eugene Victor Debs; after two months' illness; in Terre Haute, Ind. Throughout her husband's five campaigns for the Presidency (1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1920) she stayed home...
...great British writers whose reputation has not bloomed abroad as well as at home is William Morris, Pre-Raphaelite, craftsman, for whom the Morris chair was named, child prodigy (he read the Waverly novels at the age of 4), interior decorator, architect, wealthy Socialist, amazingly prolific poet and creator of stained glass windows. Morris was the leading figure among British Socialists when George Bernard Shaw, 22 years younger, first met him. Shaw, author of five unpublished novels, principally known as a speaker in seething, rapidly-shifting London radical circles, was editing a small magazine at that time. To fill...