Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alarmists who looked for the first sproutings of the tree of fascism in such typical bits of Americana as the teachers' oath bill or the rantings of the Liberty Leaguers will be amazed to know that the revolution has occurred. No barricades have been flung up across Beacon Street, nor have Laski's books been burned on Soldiers Field, but the yoke has been placed upon our necks nevertheless. And, bearing out the theory that the dictator comes from the most unexpected place, the heel that has stamped out our cherished liberties is none other than that of the Student...
Last week Boston & New England readers got a whole new section of their own. Local news is briefly reviewed in a six-column, half-page box, dressed up with ordinary and candid photographs, flanked by two longer stories. Other features: weather, radio, finance, amusement, political doings ("Up & Down Beacon Hill"). Space remains for what has always been a vexing Monitor problem: local advertising...
...worse than useless for opponents of the bill to point out that in passing the oath bill the gentlemen of Beacon Hill are subverting the very constitution of which they so loudly proclaim themselves the guardian angels. Such pseudo-patriotic cliques as the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution (Sic!) whose life blood has always been publicity, have more effect upon state legislatures in their present state of decay...
...handbill intimates that life since Boylston Street has not been without profit. The plans for the coup have been made and the hour is near--3 o'clock sharp tomorrow afternoon on Boston Common. From the soapbox nearest Beacon and Charles Streets he will launch the final attack with the novel cry "Absolute New and Positive Evidence that Bacon wrote Shakspere...
...became less clearly defined when huge, puissant Standard Oil of New Jersey chafed under restrictions limiting its domestic retail market while non-Rockefeller competitors like Texaco and British-controlled Shell could rove the whole union. In 1929 President Walter C. Teagle stepped out of bounds to acquire a company (Beacon Oil) with retail outlets in New England, province of Standard of New York (now Socony-Vacuum). Last month he put a subsidiary, Esso, Inc., on the heels of Edward G. Seubert of Standard of Indiana...