Word: clarioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some strange creatures on Clarion Island, he writes, "One was unquestionably a mipt!"* and in the same pool he saw swimming by "a school of friendly old abudefdufs" mingling with pale green surgeons...
Joseph Stalin's letter contained not only an appeal but also a statement: "The aid of the international proletariat appears to be a force without which the final victory of socialism in one country is not to be decided." That was not precisely a clarion call for world revolution but it was enough of a hint of old-fashioned Bolshevism to set off speculation on a possible shift in the Communist Party "line." For the keystone of the "line" has lately been not world revolution but co-operation with the capitalist democracies for a collective stand against fascism...
Sirs: Your issue of Jan. 24 moves me profoundly to send you a word of gratitude. Your clarion call to the conscience of the nation on the evil of lynching is as potent as any sermon on goodwill...
...back his prestige with the Socialist rank & file, Vice Premier Blum judged correctly, was to sound clarion calls for action to achieve such old favorite Socialist "reforms" as nationalization of French railways and to demand that the Senate be made subordinate to the Chamber. "Remember how this was done," cried Orator 'Slum, "in the case of the House of Lords in England...
Promising that the conclave would be "one of the most important, if not the most generally attended of all newspaper conventions in the history of the country," and italicizing the fact that it would be limited to "executives from the home office," Publisher Stahlman & friends summed up their clarion call thus: "[The closed shop] is a most serious threat to a free press, and consequently to the liberties of a free people. Many publishers throughout the country have already expressed the feeling that the newspapers should stand together against this common danger. . . . We cannot urge you too strongly to attend...