Word: cabalism
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...ready to set back Pierre Laval last week was the potent cabal inside the Radical Socialist Party which is violently hostile to the Premier. As a party the Radical Socialists, who hold a balance of power in the French Chamber, are supposed to be anti-Laval, but as individuals enough of them favor him to have made possible his Cabinet's dance on the tightrope of Power all these months. Last week the anti-Laval cabal forced a showdown within the party, demanding that hereafter Radical Socialists vote as a unit in the Chamber. At this showdown...
...range from the not particularly astounding information that racketeers browbeat small shopkeepers and sometimes shoot each other, to the more alarming but less plausible hypothesis that the Mono Castle (called in the picture the Mochado} was ignited by a shipload of liquid fire owned by a Manhattan crime cabal...
...believe that Justice Stone's colleagues on the bench either deserve or need such a sermon. At no point in the majority opinion does the court lose the strict objectivity it has heretofore maintained. In this case Justice Stone is not addressing a frost-bitten or anti-social cabal. The decision is that of Hughes and Roberts as well as McReynolds and Van Devanter, and the charge that implacable reactionaries have blocked the road to progress cannot be made under these circumstances...
...year. If an intelligent Tasmanian recluse had dropped into the Grand Ball Room of the Hotel Commodore where the NAM meetings were held last week he might have gathered that: 1) The U. S. is currently a subject nation under alien rule. 2) This rule is administered by a cabal of capricious tyrants whose sole purpose is to reduce the natives to a state of regimented slavery. 3) These irresponsible foreigners, having debased the currency, are now wilfully bankrupting the country. 4) The burden of debt and taxes is intolerable. 5) Local laws and customs are being flouted, ancient moral...
...flooded with artificial light, peopled by graceful creatures in shapely garments growing agitated over the thought of a flight around the Moon. Inhabitants of the future ski down waterfalls, which is presumably as dangerous in another century as it was up to this week. When the daughter of John Cabal, dictator, volunteers to fly through space with her sweetheart in the interests of science and adventure, all dissatisfied elements in the world rally in a great antiscientific revolt, are confounded when Catherine and her lover running ahead of the mob, go whistling off toward the stars...