Word: oppositionists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been accused of being an oppositionist, of having no program of her own. Dorothy Thompson has a program for herself. It is aristo-democratic, polysyllabic and not so very clear. Excerpts...
Followers of Communist Oppositionist Jay Lovestone yelped that they had been sold out to the most reactionary elements in the union, threatened to desert en masse. Meantime Henry Ford's unionized competitors resigned themselves to battle not with a union but between two unions claiming the same name, same contracts, same prerogatives under the Wagner...
...Lundberg said: "General Johnson, so far as I know, is not an authority on libel." As for the charge of Communist propaganda, Author Lundberg declared: "I am not now, nor was I ever, a member of the Communist Party or of any of its affiliated or oppositionist groups. I am not now, and never have been directly or indirectly connected with a Communist, Socialist or any other revolutionary Left-wing faction in either a formal or an informal...
...Commons that his Government was not so much approving a trade agreement as trading an economic treaty in the interests of immediately valuable political solidarity. "I feel sure," hinted Mr. Chamberlain, "that the House will warmly welcome this further step toward an agreement between the two Governments." Tory Oppositionist Leopold S. Amery promptly warned a meeting of the Empire Industries' Association: "I can hardly imagine that such an agreement is likely to revolutionize the American outlook on foreign affairs, so that she will be willing to do battle either for us or for the League of Nations, in Europe...
...last and protracted illnesses, the present dictator organized a veritable camarilla of self-seekers who conspired secretly against Trotsky (Lenin's logical successor) and took advantage of the fact that Trotsky himself was often ill to foment against him an opposition so strong that when Lenin died Oppositionist Stalin was able gradually to oust Trotskyists from their posts and finally to seize the government...