Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three thousand copies of "What Harvard Teaches", a four page leaflet with a frontispiece caricaturing President Lowell doling out pennies to a scrubwoman, will be distributed to undergraduates and shopkeepers in Harvard Square this afternoon by the Socialist Club of the University. This is the initial step, according to the president of the club, in a well-defined campaign in support of old age pensions and unemployment insurance...
Without waiting for emergency, President Doumergue called on Weygand last week, appointed him Chief of the French Army General Staff, actual head of the army. The promotion of Weygand, strict disciplinarian, frank militarist, was popular with all but Liberals and Socialists. Wrote the Socialist Le Peuple...
Reporters with belted overcoats and large black cameras crowded the platform of Vienna's smoky Westbahnhof to greet the most interesting man in Austria, eagle-beaked Monsignor Ignaze Seipel, onetime Prime Minister of Austria, leader of the Christian Socialist Party, crafty cleric, on his return from delivering a series of theological lectures at the University of the tiny independent Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. As the ex-Prime Minister alighted, the newshawks blurted quick questions. Was it true that he favored the return of the Habsburgs to reign in Austria? Did he want to form a separate most Catholic Kingdom...
...greatest Secretary of a Treasury on the Globe is not a male but a female, not Andrew William Mellon, not Philip Snowden, but Mme Vera Yakovleva who last week was appointed Commissar of Finance to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
Obscure, like nearly all the new crop of henchmen and henchwomen with whom Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin is gradually filling the Russian Cabinet, Mme Yakovleva was until last week Assistant Commissar of Education for the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. She is 44, boasts that she has never in all her life possessed as much as Rubles 1,000 ($510). Career: She became a revolutionist at deep-dimpled 19, flung a bomb, was exiled and imprisoned, grew morose and introspective, escaped, flung another bomb, was again exiled and imprisoned, became hard-featured and hollow-cheeked, again escaped, flung no more...