Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breach last week and attacked the Fascist Party. Cause of the quarrel: the perambulating Fascist theatre, grandiloquently known as "Car of Thespis." From distant Sardinia word reached the Vatican last week that the Car of Thespis was not only performing the works of bald, exotic Gabriele d'Annunzio, anathema to good Catholics, but that the Fascist players had added insult to injury by playing Gabriele d'Annunzio's La Figlia di Jorio (Jorio's Daughter) on the most holy Feast of the Body of Christ, Corpus Christi, a legal holiday in all Latin countries...
...more in efficient than that prevailing in the U. S. at the beginning of the twentieth Century. . . ." The cruelties were imposed by the eccentricities and individualism of the private bankers, by the lack of a central controlling or guardian agent. But "the idea of a central banking system [was] anathema to all. The compromise between the anathema and the need was the Federal Reserve Board of which Senator Carter Glass, opponent of a central bank, once resignedly remarked, "'Oh, hell, it is a central bank.'" The Redistricting Intermezzo. The book's most personal chapter deals with...
...paramount significance ard: these facts, in the last 13 years Japan has risen from supplying 3% of India's imported textiles to 13.6%; Great Britain has declined from 97.1% to 82%. Indian textile mills?anathema to St. Gandhi?now produce 45.2% of the national consumption...
...encroach upon China (TIME, Dec. 16), Bear Litvinov received it courteously enough from Ambassador Herbette, but figuratively growled at Statesman Stimson: "Mind your own business!" This time he was in an even nastier mood. For this time the French envoy was acting for Rumania, and Rumania is anathema to all Red Russians, who consider that she stole Bessarabia from them while they were fighting the White Russians and the Allies in 1918. Worse still, the Rumanian note was an echo (by request) of Statesman Stimson's reminder that Russia must not steal anything from anybody. Mr. Stimson had managed...