Word: boomerangers
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...richest, smoothest, quickest of all Spenders & Lenders is, of course, the Works Progress Administration. Having learned in previous years that announcement of the amounts of money he spends is a local publicity boomerang, Harry Hopkins talked of his plans in terms of men and jobs, not dollars. WPA's assignment is to take up unemployment slack rapidly at first, then more slowly as PWA's projects get going, then at full capacity when winter comes and heavy construction slows down. Last week WPA added 60,000 workers to its rolls, two-thirds of them in the Midwest...
...religious side the present Church-State struggle has dealt a final blow to the Erastian principle of "Cuius regio, cius religio" of the German Reformation, which has now proved an unwelcome boomerang to Protestants. Christian principles and German liberties depend on an independent Church, holding to dogmatic beliefs diametrically opposed to the religious creed of Nazidom. It is interesting to note that the liberal elements both in the Church and State have completely succumbed to political pressure, and that only the Roman Catholic and "Confessional" Churches, firm in their convictions, remain in open conflict with the government. The Christian Church...
Tracy McCraken, now 43, has been by turns editor of Humorist "Bill" Nye's Laramie Boomerang, secretary (1923) to Wyoming's Democratic Governor William Bradford Ross, secretary (1924) to the late U. S. Senator John B. Kendrick. From his political connections sprouted his close friendship with Wyoming's present rulers, oil-rich Governor Leslie Andrew Miller and Senator Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney. These three became Wyoming's famed political steam roller...
...historical experience shows without cavil that this very voice of authority can turn back on the well-intentioned reformers who use it like a boomerang. In any society where liberties are crumbling away, the tendency to accomplish "reforms" by administrative fiat rather than by judicial hearings is one of the first signs of weakness. There is nothing in New York law or tradition that sanctions the practice of combining judge and jury in the single person of Mr. Moss. For someday the official inquisitor may not be so enlightened a man as Mr. Moss, and the voice of authority...
...That we lived and ate and sang and suffered and died and we had better do them all gracefully and how much more gracefully they did them way back then. Then we seemed to progress only and never discovered anything new, and what we did discover was apt to boomerang back on us any minute like instant communication and aeroplanes and T.N.T. That anybody was a sucker to be optimistic like Browning. That science was merely building up to a great big let-down when came the Jeansian Millenium, that everything new that came out was a new responsibility...