Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denounced Jews; 2) declared that the next war would be fought for their benefit; 3) rasped at Franklin Roosevelt for putting Felix Frankfurter on the U. S. Supreme Court; 4) predicted that the U. S. Army would "demur" if ordered by a leftist Administration "to execute orders which violate all American tradition"; 5) suggested that patrioteers be deputized and trained to handle "emergencies." Strongest Moseley statement: Fascism and Naziism are good "antitoxins" for the U. S.; "in fact, the finest type of Americanism can breed under their protection as they neutralize the efforts of the Communists...
...year ago Alan Bush threw another musico-political bomb: a leftist piano concerto. The concerto started normally, but in the middle of its last movement the pianist stopped and a tenor voice swung out in a long, earnest recitative on the undignified position of artists in capitalist society...
...Leftist" Views Not Represented...
...felt by those sponsoring the petition that either he should be retained in his present position or that a new post be found for him, since his "Leftist" critical opinions "are not represented elsewhere in the Harvard community...
There were two British views on the French treatment of the refugees. The London Times described the tragic conditions, but believed that the French were doing their best with an unprecedented problem. A Leftist weekly accused the French of a form of mass torture...