Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tremendous number of the proletariat are commanding thirteen dollars a day for laying red brick on top of another as the erection of the new $1,000,000 library nears completion. The structure is at the north end of the campus, and is the most imposing and expensive of Dartmouth's buildings. The million dollars was forth-coming from George F. Baker, the New York philanthropist, who contributed towards the Harvard Business School. The work is going on steadily, the superstructure being almost complete. Parts of the library will be ready for occupancy at the close of the present semester...
...This very day we should undertake to allow full freedom of speech if our world enemies would give a promise not to intervene to overthrow the Soviet regime. But all humanity is divided into two camps, the proletariat and the imperialistic bourgeoisie, and those who attempt to turn us back to capitalism will be received with hard knocks. For the success of their schemes, our enemies need that so-called democratic freedom here...
...Party is the only one per mitted to exist. Comrade Trotzky, creator of the Red Army and one-time chief defender of the Communist Fatherland, was assumedly being read out of the party councils-and with him Comrade Gregory Zinoviev, zealous apostle of "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat." The struggle between these two fiery Opposition leaders and cold, relentless, stubborn Dictator Josef Vissarionovitch Stalin (TIME, June 13) had reached its ultimate crisis, for the Stalin controlled press was daily flaying Comrades Trotzky and Zinoviev as "traitors...
...Irish politician; in London, after a major abdominal operation. A lifelong friend of the Right Hon. Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor, "Father of the House of Commons," he was also the great contemporary and successor to Charles Stewart Parnell in the finally successful fight of the Irish proletariat against the abuses of Irish landlordism...
...Zinoviev and Leon Trotzky. These gentry proclaim with sincerity and zeal the necessity of at once throwing the whole might of Soviet Russia behind the Chinese revolution. Indeed M. Zinoviev goes even further and demands that every possible effort be made to launch "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat...