Harry Pollitt reviewed the book, vitriolically, for the 17 March 1937 issue of the Daily Worker, though even he " was forced to concede some merit to its first part.

His most notable Broadway performance ( later reprised in a 1958 movie ) was as " Big Daddy " Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1955 – 56 ).

This was opposed within the CPGB by Harry Pollitt and J. R. Campbell, the editor of the Daily Worker, and both were relieved of their duties in October 1939.

Pollitt was replaced by Palme Dutt.

Pollitt was restored to his old position as Party Secretary.

Its first police chief was William Pollitt.

The first award was given in 1998 but six awards were given in 2001 to Jesse Ventura, Ted Turner, Andy Rooney, Janeane Garafalo, George Carlin, Richard Dawkins, and Katha Pollitt.

Harry Pollitt ( 22 November 1890 – 27 June 1960 ) was the head of the trade union department of the Communist Party of Great Britain and the General Secretary of the party for more than 20 years.

Pollitt was born 22 November 1890 in Droylsden, Lancashire.

He was the second of six children of Samuel Pollitt ( 1863 – 1933 ), a lacksmith's striker, and his wife, Mary Louisa ( 1868 – 1939 ), a cotton spinner, daughter of William Charlesworth, a joiner.

Theirs was an especially close relationship and Pollitt found in his mother both a confidante and a model of working-class dignity in the face of affliction.

Pollitt was a boilermaker by trade and he frequently travelled around the country in this connection.

In 1919 Pollitt was involved in the " Hands off Russia " campaign to protest against western intervention in the Russian Civil War.

From 1924 to 1929 Pollitt was General Secretary of the National Minority Movement, a Communist-led united front within the trade unions.

That year Pollitt was one of 12 members of the Communist Party convicted at the Old Bailey under the Incitement to Mutiny Act 1797, and one of the five defendants sentenced to 12 months imprisonment.

In his public statements, Pollitt was loyal to the Soviet Union and to CPSU General Secretary Joseph Stalin.

Pollitt contested the Parliamentary seat of Rhondda East several times ; in 1945 he was less than a thousand votes from winning the seat from the Labour candidate.

Pollitt, depressed both by physical illness ( including temporary blindness ) and his increasing political isolation, resigned as General Secretary and was appointed CP Chairman.

A plaque dedicated to the memory of Pollitt was unveiled by the Mayor of Tameside on 22 March 1995 outside Droylsden Library.

Among other things, Pollitt was instructed to refute news leaks about a Stalinist purges.

Pollitt replied that he was ' having difficulties ' getting English statesmen to make public declarations supporting Thälmann but that they promised they would speak privately with German officials in London.

Pollitt went on to complain that he was " kept sitting two days and comrades refused to allow me to speak.

In one such example five British Fascisti forcibly removed Harry Pollitt from a train to Liverpool, where he was due to address a National Minority Movement event, and attempted to bundle him onto a different train.

Together with Ernst Thälmann of Germany, Maurice Thorez of France, Palmiro Togliatti of Italy, Earl Browder of the United States, and Harry Pollitt of Britain, Buck was one of the top leaders of the Joseph Stalin-era Communist International.

Backed by his political ally, Party General Secretary Harry Pollitt, Daily Worker editor J. R. Campbell sought to portray the conflict against Hitler as a continuation of the anti-fascist fight.

They include Arundhati Roy who says " Each of us needs a little RAWA "; Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, who suggests that RAWA must stand as a model for every group working to end violence ; Katha Pollitt, author of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture ; Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban and Jihad ; and Asma Jahangir, Special Rapporteur of the UN and prominent women's rights activist of Pakistan are two Pakistanis who write about RAWA and express their support.

" While frequently left undefined ( Pollitt, 2005 ), decentralization has also been assigned many different meanings ( Reichard & Borgonovi, 2007 ), varying across countries ( Steffensen & Trollegaard, 2000 ; Pollitt, 2005 ), languages ( Ouedraogo, 2003 ), general contexts ( Conyers, 1984 ), fields of research, and specific scholars and studies.

At the 19th Congress, Harry Pollitt asked rhetorically, ' why do we need to increase production?

In 1936, Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, asked him to cover the Spanish Civil War.

The five members arrested for the event insisted that they had intended to send Pollitt on a weekend break and even claimed that he had taken £ 5 in expenses they offered him for that purpose.

Prior to Rotherham, Pollitt had also played for Oldham Athletic and Sunderland but his move to Wigan ( initially as cover for existing goalkeeper John Filan ) following advice from Paul Barlow, gave him the chance to play Premiership football.

However, it was not until 1974 that Smash became popular in the convenience food market after Cadbury launched an advertising campaign by agency Boase Massimi Pollitt featuring the now famous Smash Martians, who would watch humans preparing mashed potato the traditional way on television instead of using potato granules.

One 1936 coded instruction advised Pollitt to publicise the plight of Ernst Thälmann, a German communist leader who had been arrested by the Nazis and who later died at Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Under the erroneous impression that he needed papers from some left-wing organisation to cross the frontier, on John Strachey's recommendation he applied unsuccessfully to Harry Pollitt, leader of the British Communist Party.

The party is to celebrate the birthday of patriarch Big Daddy Pollitt, " the Delta's biggest cotton-planter ", and his return from the Ochsner Clinic with what he has been told is a clean bill of health.

His family has lied to Big Daddy and Big Mama to spare the aging couple from pain on the patriarch's birthday but, throughout the course of the play, it becomes clear that the Pollitt family has long constructed a web of deceit for itself.

The GCR route to London ran over MR lines from Quainton Road to London, and to reduce reliance on the hostile MR, GCR General Manager William Pollitt decided to create a link with the Great Western Railway to create a second route into London which bypassed all MR property.

Harry Pollitt died, aged 69, of a cerebral haemorrhage, after years of worsening health, while returning on SS Orion from a speaking tour of Australia on 27 June 1960.

In his transmissions to Moscow, Pollitt regularly pleaded for more funding from the Soviet Union.

In one of the more amusing dispatches, Pollitt ( 1936 ) informed his Soviet contact about a recent visit to France to make campaign appearances for candidates from the French Communist Party.

* Harry Pollitt recording from 1942 http :// www. andrewwhitehead. net / harry-pollitt-on-disc. html

The front-page story of Thick as a Bricks newspaper cover — dated Friday, January 7, 1972 — describes the academically exceptional Gerald Bostock as the son of David and Daphne Bostock of No. 6 Pollitt Close, St. Cleve, having moved there as a family four years ago from Manchester.

* Greek Ideas & Values: ( adapted from The Art of Greece, translated by J. J. Pollitt )

Peaches players who were named to the All-Star teams from 1946-1954 included Dorothy Kamenshek, Lois Florreich, Dorothy Harrell, Carolyn Morris, Alice Pollitt, Ruth Richard, Rose Gacioch, Eleanor Callow, and Joan Berger.

It was from here that he was appointed by Lord Faringdon, Chairman of the Great Central Railway, to succeed Sir William Pollitt as General Manager of the line in 1902.

Neneh Cherry, Tessa Pollitt, and Hollie Cook and other former members of the Slits performed as well as members of the True Warriors, New Age Steppers, and friends from all over the world.

Mike Pollitt had two spells at Rotherham United, from 1998 to 2000 and 2001 to 2005.

Its President, from 1924 to 1929, was the veteran trade union activist Tom Mann and its General Secretary, over the same period, was Harry Pollitt.