Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fascism and Communism do not occupy the world stage, except in a very limited military sense. He finds the real capitals to be London and Moscow--democracy versus dictatorship. England to him is the symbol of steady progress, of rock built upon rock, of the stability which comes with age and conservatism and gradualness. Mr. Millis does not repress his admiration for the Russian's religious devotion to "their cause". This is the great element of strength in the Russian system--the patriotic faith and believing optimism of the whole nation. But his bourgeois heritage and his inborn conservatism clearly...
...overwhelming, real majorities convinced that they are following a Leader who is pure, wholesome and efficacious. In Professor Masaryk's opinion the Industrial Revolution is being followed by an international Political Revolution of a kind "not only made possible but made inevitable" by Machine Age appliances which permit One Man to make friends with all or nearly all his countrymen. The worldwide result, as yet not fully achieved, seems likely to be not Democracy or Dictatorship but both in one-a mystery potent enough to recall the Trinity, since devout Communists and devout Fascists alike today show...
...Tennessee officials discovered after hunting for legal means to void the marriage, the youngsters had put one over on the State. Since the parents approved, nothing could be done about it. Hastily drafted and passed by the State Senate was a bill setting the marriageable age for Tennessee females...
Meanwhile in. New York State, law enforcers were aroused over a young couple who had been illegally married since Jan. 15-Stanley Backus, 18, and Leona Roshia Backus, 12. Armed with a marriage license giving Leona's age as 18, and with their parents' approval, the couple had been married in Carthage by a Methodist named Rev. William K. Bradshaw who, like every one else concerned, was deceived by the bride's appearance. She weighs 112 lb., looks mature in grown-up frocks. Last week a medical examination showed her to be pregnant, and according...
...Mexico City, just after the signing of the treaty of peace had given California to the U. S., came news of a great gold strike there. In Paris the last of the Bourbons signed his abdication, and the gale of revolution that swept Europe ended the age of Metternich. The first carload of grain came by rail into Chicago...