Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dewey, while a brilliant man in his line I am sure, does not appeal to me after the stand he took in the Sacco-Vanzetti matter not long ago, and he with a lot of other theoretical high brows, Heywood Broun, for instance, always wanting some Red or Pink communist to be allowed to run loose, defame the government. . . . I cannot understand a man born and raised in a New England state like Vermont where there are no such things as radicals and Pinks and long haired agitators, upholding this sort of thing and I have no patience with such...
Martyrdom was missing. Defendant Fred Erwin Beal, Gastonia strike organizer, principal defendant, supposed Communist, when it came his turn to speak, weaseled. Loudly had the Communist press hailed him as a hero. Faced with a possible sentence, Defendant Beal, 33, pale, broad, fleshy, in a low voice denied his Communist principles, did not advocate revolution, had no objection to policemen, however violent in line of duty. The defense counsel wanted no martyrs...
Cartoon of the week in Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda (Communist Youth Pravda), organ of Communist juvenile associations: A naked Salomé presents a bloody tousled head to Messrs. John Pierpont Morgan and John Davison Rockefeller...
...tangle now current in the courts. One of the other trials, that of 16 workers accused of murdering the police chief of Gastonia, got going again last week at Charlotte after repeated delays (TIME, Sept. 23). The 16 defendants, mostly Northern organizers of the National Textile Workers' Union (Communist), hired a new lawyer-a big-framed, ingratiating Baptist named Frank Flowers who voted for Al Smith and has conservative social views. His type and standing were expected to help the "atheistic" labor radicals with the fundamentalist jury. Further help to the defendants, who were pleading they shot in self...
...black-shirted, truncheon-swinging Fascist Militia raided bookstores, bundled all editions of the works of Gorky, Gogol, Dostoievski, Tolstoy, Turgeniev, and even Jack London into vans. Official reason: "Low-priced editions of these works have injured the sale of books by modern Italian writers. They often contain seed for Communist propaganda...