Word: banishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...different order. A wise, worldly, witty old doctor ie preached the art of living, attacking in his satires and essays the New England vices of glumness, morbid introspection, self-righteousness, false modesty, urging his readers to unlock their hearts to trust their wits, to let their faculties flower, to banish the residue of ugly superstition that still weighed upon New England society. He always kept a little gold in his house, so that by running his fingers through it he would know how a miser feels. He carried a tape measure with him to measure trees, always trying to find...
...President William Green, dedicated by his office to the craft tradition, has made himself look silly by continuing to order Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization to disband under pain of excommunication. No one knows better than "Bill" Green that it takes two-thirds of a Federation convention to banish member unions, that the Committee for Industrial Organization represents more than a third of the entire A. F. of L. membership. Best current guess is that William Green will make his peace with John Lewis before the Tampa convention adjourns next November...
Other conventionalities: The delegates did not pass a resolution . which proposed "that we seek legislation to do away with the Supreme Court, for unjust decisions," but they did pass one urging legislation to banish "fear of Constitutional inhibitions on the part of Federal courts...
...real estate business, prospered. His fortune reached a peak of $750,000 in 1929, slumped with Depression. Realtor Clements was not much impressed when one of his salesmen, an ineffectual old man who had been a Long Beach health officer, began talking to him about a plan to banish depressions for good. But after a while he took interest spent a few weeks brushing up on economics and statistics in the public library. Then he sat down with Dr. Townsend to reduce the old man's vision to a concrete formula and program...
...taking over some of the elements of Socialism into the new State which he promised. Where Hitler got the Socialist planks for the "National Socialist" platform from the hated German Marxians, Louis got his ideas from Louis Blanc, French radical. And to carry out his ideas, Louis had to banish recalcitrant politically-minded poets like Victor Hugo, even as Hitler had to banish writers like Lion Feuchtwanger. Some people, indeed, have seen in Louis Napoleon the father of the modern "planned State," have even called him "the first Fascist...