Word: clannishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angola's small clannish German group, which constitutes, next to the Portuguese, the largest white population, built up a strong separatist movement among the natives. Therefore, harried Dr. Salazar concluded it was time "to show the natives of the colonies that Portugal is master of the land, that the flag flies over them with undiluted colors." Hence President Carmona's visit. To make the visit more joyful the Premier agreed to part with $7,000,000 of his prized funds...
...John Jay Price, long chief cameraman for the extinct New York World, since 1927 operator of his own news picture service in Manhattan, is now rated by Publisher Roy Wilson Howard as "one of the country's outstanding news photog-raphers." Two years ago, however, Jack Price angered clannish press photographers by writing in Editor & Publisher: "Photography is no longer the specialized profession, requiring many years to master. Any reporter can make a really good picture within a short time if he will give a little care and attention to a camera...
...objective, critically-cool prose. But occasionally readers may detect a slightly flabbergasted note of left-wing awe as he recounts how the seven sons of Jewish immigrant Meyer Guggenheim of Philadelphia made the family the second or third richest in the U. S., comparable in the scope of its clannish money-making only to the Rothschilds. Starting in 1847 as a pack peddler of household knickknacks along the muddy roads outside Philadelphia, vigorous, good-humored Meyer Guggenheim acquired a peddler's limp that never left him. When he began peddling stove polish of his own manufacture, he made more...
Whereas the 200 members of the Families' assembly used to vote in clannish secrecy, it seemed probable last week that a great number of ihe 40,000 newly eligible stockholders would accept their invitations to next month's assembly to ballot in the Bank's most publicized Assembly. All the great rooms in the Bank of France could not hold them and Bank officials last week seriously considered hiring an open-air stadium for the Bank meeting. Last week the Bank announced that stockholders must give three weeks' notice of their intention to vote, must vote...
Aloof as the College of Cardinals is the Caspian where Russia's future is charted in an endless series of successive Five Year Plans by a group of clannish Bolsheviks who form a sort of plan priesthood. Last week they were ready to advise Dictator Joseph Stalin what to do about overcrowded, stinking, sprawling Moscow. As usual their advice was super-drastic...