Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this party sought to paralyze my action. When its newspapers, its orators coarsely attacked Chamberlain who worked with admirable faith for safety and peace, did that not weaken the position of France? When they addressed daily challenges to the French Government did that facilitate our action? When they launched anathema against governments before whom we found ourselves in perilous negotiation, did they not risk hindering it and precipitating...
Never Prime Minister, but for many years a daring Colonial Secretary and a behind-the-scenes political power, Joseph Chamberlain brought to every conflict courage, the progressive humanitarianism and the trading (compromise) spirit of the Middle Class, anathema to aristocrats and proletarians. He had no occasion to study the Sudeten, Czech or Slovak problems, but in 1885 he did propose to transform the British Isles into a federation with five separate parliaments. He was two generations ahead of his time in wanting to give Ireland substantially the status that it has today...
There was a time when "taxation without representation" was anathema to Americans by and large and to noisy Harvard undergraduates in particular. Americans got the representation and have seen paying taxes ever since. Harvard undergraduates did not get representation until the Student Council was formed thirty years ago; and they are already beginning to welsh...
When three years later all was over-when Insulland came a cropper to the tune of $750,000,000, most of it lost by smalltime investors-the U. S. was ready to elect a New Deal, to whom Samuel Insull and his ill-reputed holding companies were anathema. Even though Insull was eventually acquitted of using the mails to defraud, of embezzlement and of violating the Bankruptcy Act, the emotion generated by the Insull crash made it possible for Franklin Roosevelt to secure from Congress a "death sentence" for utility holding companies...
...French labor laws enacted two years ago by Socialist Léon Blum's Popular Front Government was a rigid 40-hour working week. To millions of French workers this meant less work, a general five-day week. To the French employer the law was anathema. To hundreds of thousands of tourists the law meant that banks would be closed all day Saturdays, that big Paris stores would not open Mondays...