Word: apologist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Socialist: for President, Norman Thomas, 63 (for the sixth time) ; for Vice President, Tucker P. Smith, professor of economics at Michigan's Olivet College. Advocating public ownership of natural resources, basic industries and credit, the Socialists denounced Henry Wallace as "an apologist for the slave state of Russia and the preacher of peace by blind appeasement." The party polled 884,000 votes in 1932, dropped...
...Phil Blake, impatient idealist, and his conversion to active membership in the Communist Party. ("He found answers there . . . some sense of security, of common purpose.") It told of Phil's new creed ("We do not question . . .") and of his development into a perfectionist for the U.S. and an apologist for the Sovíet Union. It showed Phil at work in labor unions ("Come early and vote late") and in front organizations that turned and twisted (and took new names) with the whip-cracks of the party line...
They had no trouble talking Florida's florid Senator Claude Pepper into being their candidate. Deadpan Claude Pepper, onetime champion of Russia, onetime apologist for Henry Wallace, onetime defender of Harry Truman against the Dixie rebels, and the last drummer in the Eisenhower parade, made the most of the spotlight. He strode into the abandoned Eisenhower headquarters, bussed his wife at the cameramen's request and proclaimed that he would "accept the draft." Said Claude Pepper: "This is no time for politics as usual...
...wrote this is listed in the American Catholic Who's Who as an "apologist" for the faith. He is really an agitator. For 35 years he traveled up & down the U.S. in the dirty, ragged clothes which were his only possessions, sleeping in flophouses, eating in skid row joints, inveighing to everyone he met against industrialism, war and Christian smugness. His name is Peter Maurin...
...Wallace, who thinks (or says he thinks) that Greece has nothing to fear from Russian aggression, got a dose of Greek history last week. At a Washington banquet of the Greek fraternal order of Ahepa, Manhattan Lawyer Dean Alfange dusted off the story of Aeschines (389-314 B.C.), an apologist for Philip of Macedon. Said Alfange : "Today .. . Philip is Joe Stalin and I don't need to tell you who Aeschines...