Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are few people who would not be directly affected by one or more of these proposals. Every single proposal is likely to be anathema to some particular economic group. Mr. Turman was particularly brave in proposing wage ceilings for certain industries--a matter which several commentators had already concluded he would not dare to touch...
Though he was a winning Republican, he was anathema to most G.O.P. leaders. He infuriated party regulars by his association with socialists and other radicals-one of his proteges was Communist-line Vito Marcantonio-and by his refusal to accept Republican platforms. The party's silk-stocking element was frankly appalled by him-a noisy little man whose feet dangled when he sat on a chair, who needed a shave, who walked in picket lines and smelled of garlic. When he was finally beaten for Congress in 1932, the party sighed with relief. It seemed that his career...
...Anathemas. No one seemed to fill the bill exactly. Most of the top-ranking Eastern Democrats who had proved their vote-getting ability at the polls were Roman Catholics (which would make them anathema to the Democratic South): House Minority Leader John McCormack, Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon, Rhode Island's fireball Freshman Senator J. Howard McGrath...
...remember was that a political turnover would lift into a new area of activity such Republicans as Arthur Vandenberg, Robert Taft, John Bricker, Thomas Dewey, Earl Warren, Harold Stassen-and Ed Martin. To extreme New Dealers perhaps all of these men except Earl Warren and Harold Stassen were anathema. But not to the country at large. Senator Vandenberg had joined freely and courageously with Secretary of State Byrnes to form the nation's strong, bipartisan foreign policy. Taft's cold, moral judgment and insistence on getting at the facts had more than once saved the Senate from hysterical...
...when Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang were anathema to most "foreigners," I supported them, for I felt the facts indicated they were improving the people's welfare. It was not until my last trip to China, in 1940-41, that I became convinced that the Kuomintang would never bring democracy and its benefits to the Chinese people. On the other hand, I was convinced as early as 1938 that the people in the Communist-controlled areas were benefiting by the social-economic-political pattern that was being developed there...