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Equally plainly, Scot MacDonald and the Conservative Party (bulwark of his National Government) believed last week that the risk of social upheaval is offset if not canceled by a strong probability that the Labor Party cannot win. In 1929 the Labor Party, led by Mr. MacDonald with a united front, polled 8.416,557 votes, the Conservatives 8,669,469, the Liberals...
...Daredevil pluck, ultra rapidity of thought and movement, cool calculation and reckless abandon, honor blended with determination- these are some of the demands and features of the great, clean national game. Through the long Dark Ages of serfdom, hurling remained with us as a bulwark second only to our national language in preserving our subdued and suppressed individuality...
...unwavering bulwark of the established order the Church of Rome has inevitably been seriously involved in the political upheavals of Catholic countries. It was impossible for Spain to become republican without upsetting the precarious balance between the Church and its enemies. The violence of the recent attacks on Catholic institutions; however, is probably the result of special conditions in that country...
...blue shirt of the thrifty American worker is perhaps the surest bulwark against the red shirt of Communism. A more liberal outlook on the part of the government toward social problems, backed by salutary neglect of Communist bugaboo, would tend to weaken the hold of revolutionary agitators America's industrial centers...
Editor Morrison had to bank heavily upon his distinction between an undenominational magazine, as The Christian Century describes itself, and the denominational press. Except for the Wet Catholic journals, most important of which are Commonwealth and America, the denominational press is mainly a Dry bulwark. Prohibition leans hard upon the support of the Methodist Episcopal Christian Advocate (circulation 250,000), the Presbyterian Christian Observer (34,553), and their like...