Word: anathemas
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...Geneva the Disarmament Conference remained deadlocked upon Premier Tardieu's plan to equip the League of Nations with an international police force- a plan anathema to President Hoover, as everyone knows. Therefore knowing Swiss pulled long faces, called Delegate Stimson "the American Undertaker come to bury the Disarmament Conference." But Chief U.S. Delegate Hugh Gibson had presented to the Conference last week a spirited rehash of the "real disarmament" which President Hoover would like to see achieved...
...which may be annulled and from those marriages which may be dissolved by a decree of divorce. In other words California does so mind these unions of Negro and white that she places them in the category of those which are against her public policy and which are therefore anathema. AUBRY MILLER Los Angeles, Calif. ... It is hardly sportsmanlike for you to say that California "does not mind" when, in fact, it has, as you could easily ascertain, a law on miscegenation. Section 60 of the California Civil Code says: "All marriages of white persons with Negroes, Mongolians or Mulattoes...
Tariffs of any kind are anathema to a Socialist. Squarely last week the harassed Prime Minister had to answer to himself: "Am I still a Socialist? Am I still a Laborite? Am I anything that...
There is a Rockefeller Family Association. It was founded in 1905, when John Davison Rockefeller's name was large in the news as charitarian and anathema* Then 110 less-known Rockefellers gathered at Germantown, N. Y., laid the foundation. Their purposes: "Fellowship . . . acquaintances . . . assisting children of Rockefeller descendants to obtain an education . . . by making them loans of money . . . without interest." Initiation fee was $2, annual dues $2. More recently they have published the R. F. A. News, an eight-page quarterly which runs gossip on Rockefellers; family genealogy and such information as: "This name [Rockefeller] was chosen after...
...Marcus Monroe Brown's Rockefeller in Education & Religion, 1905 (charitarian); Ida Minerva Tarbell's The History of Standard Oil, 1904 (anathema...