Word: anathemae
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...proved popular talk for to Socialist rank-&-filers the Senate is anathema because of the way it is elected. Deputies to the Chamber are chosen all at once by universal male suffrage, either at four-year intervals or whenever the President ascertains that no Premier can find a majority, and orders the Chamber dissolved. Senators are elected for nine-year terms, an election taking place every three years for one-third of the Senate. They are chosen not by universal suffrage but by electoral colleges whose members are Deputies or elected delegates from communes and departments. Senatorial candidates must...
...shaking hands with other welcomers, Alf Landon turned to Charlie Taft, checked with him to be sure of the name "Charter," started toward a radio microphone set up for the occasion. Guessing the Nominee's intention, and well aware that the Charterites, now allied with local Democrats, were anathema to the Republican machine which they had ousted, Adviser Taft hurried after his principal to caution: "Go easy on that, Governor. You know." "Yes, I know, I know," returned the Nominee. Moment later he was at the microphone. "I want to congratulate you," he cried to Cincinnatians, "on your Charter...
...floor, in corridors, at divisional meetings, bankers gloomed little. Anathema two years ago, Federal deposit insurance was generally accepted. The low-status of commercial loans as earning assets was treated for the first time not as a horrifying abnormality but as a more or less permanent condition to which banks would have to adapt themselves. In a report for the A. B. A.'s economic policy commission, Cleveland Trust's financial seer, Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, described this change as the most important bankers have faced since the Civil War.* Said...
...then Henry Louis Mencken must be counted great. In the last ten years his influence has dwindled notably, but to a college generation now growing bald he was the greatest debunker of them all. For his vigorous and vivid style, that sometimes rises to heights of rhetoric and grotesque anathema, he has never been given his due rating, being regarded less as a good and aggressively sensible writer than as a sort of public entertainer with a sleeve-full of uproarious phrases. His bull-roaring denunciations have been returned with interest by many a patriot, professor, politician: he has been...
...Leipzig's famed Trade Fair last week went Reich Air Minister Göring and trainloads of important Army officers, not to gape at sample booths but to pay homage to a small young woman with curly hair and a timid voice. Though women in business are anathema to orthodox Nazis, Fraulein Martha Burger is one they cannot do without. An engineer and steel technician, she has designed a line of bombproof steel houses, and bombproof and gasproof cellars for houses already up, that have withstood dozens of tests from Germany's air force. At Leipzig last week...