Word: cabal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other, was making overtures to Britain by sending Count Dino Grandi back to London (where he used to be Ambassador) to talk things over. That the pressure came not only from abroad was indicated by whispered gossip in Rome that Fascist Secretary Achille Starace had formed a cabal backed by the King, the Army and the peasantry, which would oust II Duce from his job if he went to war on Germany's side. What was significant about this tidbit was not so much whether it had a basis of fact, but that it could get around...
...Fascintern, with Hitler in the driver's seat, with Mussolini, Franco and the Japanese military cabal riding behind, emerged in 1938 as an international, revolutionary movement. Rant as he might against the machinations of international Communism and international Jewry, or rave as he would that he was just a Pan-German trying to get all the Germans back in one nation, Führer Hitler had himself become the world's No. 1 International Revolutionist?so much so that if the oft-predicted struggle between Fascism and Communism now takes place it will be only because two revolutionist dictators. Hitler...
...force Harvard to end the irresponsible actions of some of the janitors. By confining its employees to their proper functions the University can avoid a Labor Board hearing which would prove annoying even though it revealed a group of minor employees out of hand and not an anti-Federation cabal in University Hall. Better control of the janitors would enable the University to make its oft-heralded claim of neutrality undoubted fact. The University should act promptly...
...that deserted him a few moments later when he condemned as "rot" Robert Jackson's charge that business had gone on a sit down strike against the government. Such a charge is rot only if we take Jackson to mean that a handful of magnates have formed a revengeful cabal to sabotage the New Deal. The National Association of Manufacturers is really an elegant institution. But Jackson was not ridiculous when he claimed that the policies of large corporations drive away the customers that government spending tries to provide...
Into this idealistic atmosphere plunged Candidate Borah, expected by "Stop Landon" men to be the spearhead of their attack. With great emphasis on his Principles, the Senator from Idaho declared that he was first & foremost interested in the platform, refused to join a cabal against any candidate. To him the identity of the nominee was and always had been a matter of secondary importance. "I think," boomed he, "we should have a clarion call in our platform so that the average man in the street may not find it hard to read and know what it means...