Word: communism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Communism has never won political support in the U. S. as it has in some European countries (see page 15). Its ablest figure, the late Charles Emil Ruthenberg was a longshoreman's son who worked in factories and newspaper offices. The new leader William Zebulon Foster, 47, was a wandering slum boy of Taunton, Mass., who obtained a haphazard education in public libraries. First he was a Socialist, but in 1919 that party "expelled" him for his part in the I. W. W. steel strikes of that year. He was later convinced that the I. W. W. program...
...propagation of deep rooted amity such as America possesses theoretically in the Pan American Union has dangerously inverted its national and economic consciousness. Again, it realizes the menace that Russia once stabilized will present with its deter, mined propagandist program for the conversion of all nations to communism, or the power that any of the great peoples of the world would have in event of war against the separate forces of Europe, bound by nationality and conflicting in interest...
...business world with a house of ill-fame was certainly in poor taste; but few who know the circumstances would consider the young poet deserving of so harsh a punishment. He was born in Russia, and has been raised in sections of New York City where the tenets of communism sway the public mind and make the more spirited active revolutionists. A better citizen and probably a better poet will result from the leniency of the Parole Commission...
...Hungarian nursery maids frighten their charges into "being good" with the dread name of onetime Dictator Kun. One still hears at Budapest whispers of the unspeakable propaganda methods by which Kun sought to break down the sanctity of religion, patriotism and morality in Hungary, to make way for Communism. For example, he caused to be exhibited to children in the public schools a cinema depicting persons of opposite sex in promiscuous conjunction. Other and more violent phases of the "Red Terror" gave Hungarians such a sickening belly-full of Communism that they overthrew the Kun regime by a "White Terror...
Further, the police claimed to have found proof that $30,000 was paid to Ronoto during the recent electoral campaign by the Third International, famed Soviet propaganda bureau. The "master mind" who from Moscow directed the alleged subversion was declared to be Sen Katayama, the expatriate "Father of Japanese Communism" and a graduate of Yale University...