Word: communism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Communism. In the Passaic (N. J.) textile workers' strike last winter, in the woman's garment industry, and in the Manhattan fur workers' strike, Communist machinations were exposed and defeated by A. F. of L. members...
While gendarmes and French soldiery scoured the Riviera for spawn of Communism cast out by Italy (who must, said Frenchmen, have been the dastards that bombed Legion trains last fortnight), Retiring Commander Howard Paul Savage and some 200 American Legionaries specially picked for their ability to commerce in goodwill, entered the cavernous railroad station at Genoa...
...finally, what idea, what theme for Novel No. 100 would best please light fiction-readers right now? Why, the menace of Communism, to be sure. The newspapers are full of it every day and the Home Secretary lately held that raid on the Reds' London headquarters, no end spectacular even if it did not prove much. Typist, world-traveler, Communism ? the very thing. Hurrah...
Conservative papers in England, Germany, Scandinavia, hesitated to express opinions or advice on a case falling entirely within the province of U. S. jurisprudence. One German editor, however, welcomed the U. S. into the fellowship of European "humanity, justice and culture" for its supposed stand against the forces of Communism...
...persuader of profit-taking evangelists, and the consoler of the regular clergy. Where there is social misery, the religious are apt to keep patient, in hopes of the prophetic millenium. (The non-religious are apt to be impatient, in hopes of what they think the economic millenium - socialism, communism...