Word: creed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance to do democracy a kindness in return. One of his vice presidents, George W. Millner, is a Negro. So Joseph Patrick Ryan suggested that the union elect Millner for life-"as an object lesson to the entire labor movement that unity can be achieved by elimination of race, creed and color prejudice." At the same time, of course, the union might as well elect Mr. Ryan for life...
...angle out of all proportion. It is true that Mexican and Negro boys wear zoot suits out on the coast perhaps more than others. But to a soldier who has been taken from his home and put in the Army, the sight of young loafers of any race, color, creed, religion or color of hair loafing around in ridiculous clothes that cost $75 to $85 per suit is enough to make them...
...picked up the cult of superman from Nietzsche, the creed of power from Machiavelli. Pareto taught him to despise democracy, Marx to scorn capitalism, and Sorel the myth of universal violence. He courted martyrdom, spat at priests, lived promiscuously with at least half a dozen women. Out of Marxism, jingoism and obscurantism he compounded a new thing called Fascism and imposed it on a nation weakened by war and frightened by social unrest...
...months the Communists have grown from virtual oblivion (they were banned from 1934 to July 23, 1942) to challenge the Hindu Mahasabha as India's third strongest political party. Their internal program is for land division, higher wages, a breaking down of all restrictions of caste, creed and custom. Externally their policy is basically anti-imperialist, but to Joshi, trading British imperialism for Japanese slavery is foolish. The average age of party members is 27. Claimed membership: 16,000 regular party members, 400,000 peasant "supporters," 39,000 students...
...spoke, there was a transformation. The quietly efficient officer became the eloquent apostle of air power, for war and peace, voicing his creed and its docu mentation in eager New England ac cents...