Word: antis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are three factions in the Republican party: Hooverism, anti-Hooverism and the Administration. Of these, Hooverism is the most popular, as demonstrated by the primary elections. The Administration is the most potent, by virtue of its record and occupancy. Anti-Hooverism is miscellaneous but its chief hero is Candidate Lowden, because he has a definite program for a large, definite group of voters. That this program is more important than personal success to Candidate Lowden is not doubted, except by such cynics as could read "sour grapes" between the lines of his conditional renunciation last week...
...table at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house." So wrote Editor Chester W. Cleveland of the Magazine of Sigma Chi in an article published last fortnight (TIME, May 14). Editor Cleveland did not conceal the fact that he disapproved of Candidate Hoover because the latter was non-fraternity and anti-fraternity while in college...
...cynosure, of course, was Pennsylvania's lean, grey primate, Andrew William Mellon. For months people had been saying that the fate of Hooverism lay in the hollow of the delicately deliberate hand which runs the Treasury Department. A few forecasters, notably Col. Theodore Roosevelt, had predicted that if the anti-Administration forces beat Hoover in Indiana, the Administration's cautious senior lieutenant (Mellon) would make some gesture friendly to the industrious junior lieutenant (Hoover) who wants to carry on the Administration's work...
...Manhattan last week twenty antivivisection, anti-inoculation, animal humane societies of the United States and Canada gathered at the semi-annual meeting of the International Conference for the Investigation of Vivisection to flay the medical profession. They inveighed against the practice of cutting open innocent little animals or filling them with nasty diseases. Said Charles Edward Russell, famed radical author and winner of the 1928 Pulitzer prize for Biography: "I suggest that we broadcast to the public a pamphlet challenging the American Medical Association directly. The doctors won't meet us in a hearing because they're afraid...
...Egyptian Parliament, greatly daring, had brought the ultimatum upon itself by approving the so-called Public Assemblies Bill. Under that innocuous title is cloaked a measure which would severely curtail the police power to maintain order during public meetings, which, in Egypt, turn very easily into anti-British race riots. Therefore the London ultimatum to Cairo, last week, informed Egyptian Prime Minister Nahass Pasha that he must "immediately . . . prevent the Public Assemblies Bill from becoming law," or else expect "His Britannic Majesty's Government to consider themselves free to take such action as the situation may seem to them...