Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to get any place until we get rid of all those damn bureaucrats, hobocrats, autocrats and all those other crats up there in Washington. . . . Oh, it'll take us five or six years, I reckon, but we'll set up a real Utopia in this State. We've got to run our own business and not have any of those dam fol-de-rols that's going on up there...
...lurid Russian figure waving a red flag over California. Another was an appeal by a non-existent "Citizens' Co-operative Relief Committee" for donations of clothing, food, room space and money for the 1,500,000 new citizens expected to arrive in the State because of the Sinclair Utopia. A fake "Young People's Communist League" leaflet bore the party hammer-&- sickle and an endorsement of Sinclair. In preparation, said Sinclair headquarters, were 1,000,000 pamphlets alleging that Upton Sinclair had once tried to take out Russian citizenship papers in Moscow...
...three days later I was driven back to Englewood to attend, on crutches, the sessions of the coroner's jury. So I learned what the outside world had been thinking about our little Utopia. They not only thought it a 'free love nest,' but the village horse-doctor on the jury thought we had set fire to it ourselves, to get the insurance. Also, and worse yet, they thought we had arranged our affairs in such a way that we could beat the local tradesmen out of the money we owed them. It was a matter...
...government's appropriation of the gold reserve all tend to undermine credit. With this money the government has often spent five dollars to give one dollar of relief. Evidently the four dollar discrepancy ensures a vote for the new deal. Such haphazard spending will not bring about a utopia where everyone is satisfied; it will land us on the rocks of chaos...
Beliefs: Labor is King. Unionization is Utopia. National issues are irrelevant, but nevertheless Roosevelt is a "strike-breaker." Election of Sinclair, a pseudo-Socialist, would be a setback to "radicalism...