Word: creed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxing the people to the point where they were either paupers or thieves. Lincoln knew that patronage was the greatest enemy of all governments. . . . Would that we had a man like Lincoln in the White House today. If we did, he would never allow a brain-trusters' creed to teach the doctrine that you can boondoggle yourself back to prosperity...
...priest able to require new parts for his Buick drives the League of the Militant Godless into tantrums. Their Jubilee last week was devoted to exhortations and alarms over what they consider a "New Menace": priests in various parts of Russia have now nimbly inserted Bolshevism into their creed and are preaching what seems to peasants a harmonious blend of Communism and Christianity. The Godless bitterly complained last week that priests have identified themselves so closely with Joseph Stalin's pet collective farms as to announce sternly from their pulpits that peasants who refuse to join the collective cannot...
These superficially contradictory circumstances last week were important because they revealed the peculiar way in which sport in general is defined by Nazi minds. Sport in Germany is by no means a mere diversion from more serious affairs. It fits into the Nazi creed of Strength through Joy. The religious intensity with which up-to-date Nazis have accepted this nebulous idea can be perceived in the enthusiasm with which groups of healthy young Germans roll down practice slopes in the effort to learn how to ski, in the amazingly extensive methods by which Germany's Olympic Committee, functioning...
...former bears with it the taint of Naziism, for present-day speedsters in Germany have their cars marked with a large yellow cross. The disapproval of the installation of "governors" on cars would seem an instance of the strong sporting spirit so prevalent among American motorists, whose driving creed might be "I'll take my medicine if they catch me, but they're going to have to go some to do that...
...chiefly that Fascist in Republican's clothing, the Criox de Feu, was not received with patience or good will by the Premier's party. In the eyes of political observers France has recently been reaching the crossroads in internal affairs, and she must now choose between Fascism or some creed skin to Socialism. Perhaps it was the mission of Laval to postpone the day of reckoning. But still the charge has been brought against him of winking slyly at the reactionary party, and this in the France of today is unforgivable...