Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making its change, the Times had gone forward and backward at the same time. Its coat of arms was resurrected from the top of the Daily Universal Register (founded 1785), the Times's predecessor. The arms included the fleur-de-lis, implying Britain's claim to the throne of France which was not relinquished until 1801. As if aware that this revival might be a source of irritation to readers across the Channel, the renewed lion looked considerably more fierce, more vigilant...
...Backward areas...
...Reynolds was known to have talked of suicide often. Then gossipy newshawks began to arrive from New York and spread stories about Libby Holman, darling of Broadway. It was learned that she was a Jewess, that her father had changed his name from Holzman. She had married a queer backward youth six years her junior out of pity, she said, more than love. Was she after his $15,000,000 share of the Reynolds estate? Manhattan tabloids playing up her stage life and loves got back to Winston-Salem, stirred old Southern prejudices. In this atmosphere of moral distrust...
...stand of Capital-ism." The country, he believes, is ripe for a dictatorship, with the mass of people stunned into inaction by the Depression. All that is lacking is the dictator himself. The Bonus Expeditionary Force encamped at the capital, he once thought, offered fertile soil for such a backward movement but its leaders did not measure up to the political opportunity. "If the country wasn't so sprawling." declared Socialist Thomas, "a man like Senator Huey Long might seize demagogic control...
...step backward. . . . The preamble asserts that the time is ripe for disarmament but all the subsequent contents of the resolution represent an utter negation of that assertion." Suiting action to his words the Soviet Delegate moved to amend the resolution by inserting into it the chief, concrete features of the Hoover Plan. Three votes were taken and on all three the U. S. Ambassador voted against insertion of the Hoover Plan. At this juncture a huge "silver" (aluminum) seaplane, roaring up from Rome, appeared over Geneva. The Delegates, as they voted down the Russian proposals, could...