Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communist propaganda, Author Lundberg declared: "I am not now, nor was I ever, a member of the Communist Party or of any of its affiliated or oppositionist groups. I am not now, and never have been directly or indirectly connected with a Communist, Socialist or any other revolutionary Left-wing faction in either a formal or an informal...
...years ago, when Sinclair Lewis published It Can't Happen Here, a miscellaneous group of left-wing writers hailed that anti-Fascist novel with a dinner in a small Italian restaurant on Manhattan's East Side. There in an upstairs room Sinclair Lewis sat at the head of a long table facing a row of radical poets, proletarian novelists and dramatists, defenders of civil liberties, pamphleteers, listening uncomfortably to their speeches that welcomed him to their ranks. Said New Masses Editor Granville Hicks: "When I read Work of Art I wondered-is Red Lewis with us or against...
...Willis Van Devanter retired last May. Justice Sutherland's letter consequently reduced the rock-ribbed conservative element on the bench to two (Justices Butler and McReynolds), removed the potential balance of power from the middle-of-the-road conservatives (Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Roberts), gave the liberal wing (Justices Brandeis, Cardozo,-Stone,* Black and, presumably, Justice Sutherland's successor), a majority as effective as any the President could have hoped...
...delegates heard messages from President Roosevelt. John L. Lewis, and Minnesota's Governor Elmer A. Benson, got an official welcome from Vassar's tall, tolerant Henry Noble MacCracken. They were bedded in Main Hall, the men in one wing, girls in another. In the corridors between the two wings the college had prudently stationed watchmen. Among the delegates were Economist Stuart Chase's son Robert (Harvard). Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo's niece Nancy (Swarthmore), Law Professor Felix Frankfurter's niece Ruth (Barnard), famed Lawyer Samuel Untermyer's grandson Frank (Cornell). Absent were...
...left-wing versions, the Communists set up a Soviet government in south China, defeated five armies that Chiang Kai-shek sent against them, and ruled 80 million people with unparalleled benevolence. According to Chiang Kaishek, they degenerated into marauding bandits who were completely wiped out in a series of anti-Red campaigns. But in both right & left reports, Soviet China seemed less a geographical and political reality than a wandering country like Swift's floating Laputa. At one time this nomad-land was located in Hunan Province in the interior, then in Kiangsi in southeast China. When Chiang...