Word: shaws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joad is no pantywaist philosopher. Three years ago, when he witnessed the first firewalk performed in England (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935); newshawks asked him, as a well-known student of psychic phenomena, what he thought of the feat. Scholar Joad, taking a leaf from the book of George Bernard Shaw, who charges $1 a word for answering questions, said he could make no observations unless he was paid five guineas...
...rise and fall" of the British labor movement, is an urbane, inquisitional chronicle of missed opportunities, compromises, retreats, timidities, defeats. These all are traced to one original sin: The adoption by British labor of the "British" evolutionary, "substitute" socialism taught by the Fabians under Sydney Webb and George Bernard Shaw, instead of the "scientific socialism" of Karl Marx. The Fabians were not consciously malicious or cowardly, says Strachey, they were merely ignorant, got their socialist wires crossed because they did not know what a capitalist State was all about. They said the State was "a great league of consumers," hence...
...Elected big, sandy-haired Reuben Taylor Shaw, a Philadelphia high-school teacher, as its president...
Revolutionary Songs (Tues. 3:30 p.m., CBS). The Liberty Song, Bunker Hill, The Toast, Lamentation over Boston, Ode to Fourth of July resurrected from 18th-Century manuscripts by Antiquarian Elie Siegmeister, sung for the first time on radio by Soprano Hollace Shaw, Tenor Charles Haywood...
...Arthur gives what Author Shaw apparently considers convincing evidence of a cerebral reawakening by proposing a benevolent dictatorship, including nationalization of banks, property and labor. The Prime Minister's brave proposals come to nothing, but by the time his cabinet, his constituents, a fierce young female Marxist (Ardis Gains), and his family have indicated their more or less reluctant disapproval, audiences have been treated to a symposium so full of sparkling, perfectionist common sense that they may well forget that they have seen nothing closer to physical action than a young agitator's feeble threat to break...