Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writer and War Worker. Popular, friendly, publicity-shunning, William Hervey Allen is a man of many parts. Money in the bank is anathema to him, so proceeds from Anthony Adverse went into realizing Allen's feudal dream of a self-sustaining family unit. With his wife Ann and three children (Marcia, 13; Mary Ann, ii; Richard, 6) he built on Maryland's Eastern Shore "one of the most complete family plants in the world," making bread from his own wheat, wine from his own grapes. Cows, hens and the waters of an inlet from Chesapeake Bay supply...
...State of the Union message, he had abandoned his plans for a fighting speech full of urgent recommendations for expanded social security and other plans dear to his own heart but anathema to many a Congressman. Instead he spoke in broad outlines, with friendly, conciliatory gestures. Probably bitter fights were inevitable between this Congress and the Administration, but the President had at least postponed them. Not since the first "honeymoon days" of his Administration had Franklin Roosevelt received such an overwhelmingly favorable reaction to a speech. Not since the first days after Pearl Harbor had Washington seemed so united...
Vitality: Low. The decline of Henry Morgenthau typified one aspect of the New Deal dilemma: it lacked the vitality of leadership needed to throw off its ills. To practical politicians in the Democratic Party, most New Deal bigwigs had become anathema. Such good New Dealers as Henry Morgenthau, Price Boss Leon Henderson and Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard, who were in the bitter struggles of organizing the nation for war, had left much of their popularity and most of their political blood on the battlefield-and had won no administrative medals...
...Falange has tangled with militarists who say they won the war and have a winner's right to rule, and with Monarchists who want Spanish rule returned to the House of Bourbon. Needing the Falange for political support, Franco also knows that its practices and pipsqueak pomp are anathema to the Spanish people...
...Cliveden, overlooking the tranquil Thames, Viscountess Astor, the Tory Party's Munich-era hostess and perennial mosquito, buzzed anathema. Some of it was against Paul Joseph Goebbels, who was gleefully repeating to Russia her statement that the Russians were fighting "not for us . . . for themselves" (TIME, Aug. 10). Most of it was against her fellow M.P.s, the British press and her own Plymouth constituency, who were hopping mad at Nancy Astor. M.P.s hunted loopholes in Commons privileges which would allow them to force Nancy to apologize publicly. The British press labeled her speech "a major political indiscretion." A trades...