Word: antis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Battle of the Referendum claim the support of grizzled old Hero President Paul von Hindenburg. Hugenberg followers quoted the President's famed speech "protesting the War guilt lie" at the anniversary of the Battle of Tannenberg in 1927, as proof that he sympathized with them. Anti-referendumists quoted von Hindenburg's thanks to Foreign Minister Stresemann on his return from The Hague Parley (TIME, Aug. 19) as his personal endorsement of the Young Plan. Irate and august, President von Hindenburg reasserted his neutrality: "I declare herewith that I have given nobody authorization or cause to make known...
...North Sea, of his apartments in Manhattan, Paris, Berlin, of his never carrying matches, of the statue of Diana in the courtyard of his home office. Herr Kreuger has all the qualities necessary for the creation of a legend. He is remote; he is powerful; he is-to the anti-monopolist- sinister. Yet Herr Kreuger has not consciously made himself a Mystery Man and no great secret have been the facts of his personal or corporate life. Simplest division of his adult career would be threefold -a Wanderjahre period, a period of building construction in Sweden, and the present match...
Harvard is afflicted beyond most colleges with this aggravation of the trivial. With few exceptions, the press selects anti-Harkness Lampoons, weird Socialist pronouncements, and the peccadilloes of one club, as its Harvard news. The domestic affairs of Harvard are paraded; the legitimate news is buried under the indifference of the press...
...situation which had held up Mr. Guggenheim's confirmation while Secretary of State Stimson hurriedly consulted with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee resulted partly from an anti-Machado resolution received by the Senate and partly from a series of suits for damages brought against the Cuban government by U. S. citizens. High were the crimes and misdemeanors of "El Gallo" as recited by the aggrieved petitioners. He had violated the Cuban constitution. He had illegally manipulated the rich national lottery. His administration had been guilty of extravagance, fraud, political coercion, assassination. Furthermore, he had trampled upon the rights...
Nevertheless, it was no sinecure that the new ambassador was taking over. Even discounting the anti-Machado petition as representing a volatile temperament influenced by a political and personal bias, there still remained the injured U. S. citizens and their grievances against the Cuban state. The five chief cases, each christened for its claimant...