Word: bismarckians
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...Hughes explained: "What Mr. Hoover meant by 'State socialism' is plain enough. He used the term in its proper sense as applied to the Bismarckian philosophy of the centralization of government, dominating all the activities of the people. Whether Governor Smith knows what the term 'State socialism' means or not, he at once jumped for the martyr's crown...
Translated, the motto means: "Strongly blow the winds of freedom." It is itself an authentic breath from the pre-Bismarckian Germany, which loved beer and learning and the hearth and which was not at all imperialist...
...Lapsley A. McAfee of Berkeley, Calif., the Moderates chose a man possessed of three extraordinarily varied qualifications: a compelling, genial personality; an indorsement (last year) from the late Fundamentalist William J. Bryan; and a high administrative record in a big position. He is Rev. Dr. William O. Thompson, bald Bismarckian lately retired president of Ohio State University. When Dr. Macartney tried to reconcile Dr. McAfee's alleged tolerance with Dr. McAfee's own declaration that "there is room in the church for all but the extreme Modernists," the Liberal nominator, Rev. Dr. Roy E. Vale of Oak Park, I11., countered...
...Germans practically united in a glorification of the old regime,--a glorification which consisted mainly in demanding the creation of a greater Germany extending far-beyond the 1914 frontiers, the establishment of a solid empire under a Hohenzollern Kaiser, and a return to the never-forgotten leadership of Bismarckian ideals The collapse of the latter-day monarchy was skillfully relegated to oblivion, and the pride and strength of Prussian domination enthusiastically proclaimed...