Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communist and Socialist United Front was followed by a moderate Left Government and a radical Left rash of riots and arsons (TIME, March 30 et ante). In France last month's Popular Front election victory was followed last week, in precisely the same pattern, by Left-wing direct action, designed to compromise Socialist Leon Blum on the eve of his premiership. In France it took the form of an epidemic of "folded arms" strikes or "lock-ins" in munitions, airplane and automobile factories...
...this scared the Radical Socialists, the Popular Front moderate wing, out of their wits. Threatened with the loss of their essential support or with domination by his unruly Communist allies in the next Chamber of Deputies, Leon Blum last week hastened to confer with lame-duck Premier Albert Sarraut...
Three factions divided the Left Wing of U. S. politics. Biggest and strongest of the three was the Left's Left headed by Norman Thomas, twice Socialist nominee for President. This faction two years ago, after a bitter struggle, got the party to adopt a radical platform including "mass resistance" to war, last year agreed to a "united front" with Communists in such specific matters as May Day parades, demonstrations against Fascism and support of the unemployed. The Left's Left went to Cleveland last week already in control of the party's National Executive Committee...
...castle were open to tourists, if Prince von Starhemberg were there, if his private guard would be drilling or if there would only be the usual caretakers on the grounds. Thus forewarned, a couple of busloads of green-coated Heimwehr hustled out to Waxenberg, hid in the new wing of the castle. About midnight a column of automobiles drew near the grounds. Out tumbled 50 apple-cheeked young Nazis who began tiptoeing toward the castle. Heimwehrmen swarmed out like bees. There was a rattle of shots. The Nazis withdrew, leaving two of their band dead on the ground...
...direct the projected picture. Rather than have the film made on contract by an outside organization, he was put on the Resettlement Administration's payroll. By the time Lorentz was ready to begin shooting last September, he had employed a trio of cameramen, all able, all Left-wing in politics. Ralph Steiner, 37, gained fame as a still photographer, currently earns his bread-&-butter doing color work for Ladies' Home Journal, has made several cinema shorts including H2O, Surf and Sea Weed, Pie in the Sky. Paul Strand, one-time protege of Alfred Stieglitz. did a film called...