Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party, a divisional director of Mr. Quill's union leaped to the platform, with a pack of Communist sympathizers, took over the proceedings. The lights flashed off, on, off again. Amid the hullabaloo the Quillsters voted down the anti-Communist resolution, yelled recriminations at those who objected, elected Leftist Congressman Vito Marcantonio chairman of their rump unit. Mr. Marcantonio declined, but he sideswiped the purgers as actors "playing the role of international statesmen. They should go back to ringing doorbells and climbing stairs to get out the vote...
...editorial entitled "Mr. Hicks Resigns," the Leftist magazine New Masses in its issue to be released tomorrow calls the ex-American Civilization Counselor's resignation from the Communist party and from the board of the publication "ironical" and "regrettable...
Hicks has also resigned as an editor of the New Masses, the leftist publication admitted last night in an exclusive confirmation. Hicks, who could not be reached by telephone, was reportedly antagonized by the attitude of the Communist organization towards the recent Russo-German alliance as expressed in its official press...
...tell the whole truth. Alfred Renton Bryant ("Harry") Bridges proceeded to tell more about himself than anyone had told before. Because he is the most potent and feared Laborite in the western U. S., Bridges on Bridges was bound to furnish 1) news, 2) insight into the innards of Leftist Labor...
...journalists who supported the Republic. Last month all Spanish newspapermen got orders to present to the Government copies of what they had written against Franco during the civil war. By last week 35 of these journalists had been shot. Among the 35: Antonio Hermosilla, editor of Madrid's Leftist La Libertad; Modesto Sánchez Monreal, editor of Madrid's Leftish El Sol; Emilio Gabás, onetime editor of Madrid's El Socialista; Federico Moreno, editor of Zaragoza's Heraldo de Aragón; and Javier Bueno, who was editor of Oviedo's Avance...