Word: demagog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hate in the individual but not in the mass." In 1909 Hanisch & Hitler lived on public charity, later on made small sums by selling Christmas cards which Hitler painted. Once after seeing a film Hitler remained highly excited for days. Questioned about it, he explained: "I saw a demagog haranguing his followers! That was great! That was magnificent...
...runty little man with a pistol-butt scar on his hollow cheek pattered into an office in the Department of Agriculture last week. He undid a paper package, produced a pair of shears and two pots of paste. With these arranged neatly on his desk, Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, demagog extraordinary and twice (1916-20, 1928-32) Governor of Mississippi, inducted himself into a job announced officially as "having charge of assembling current information records for the Adjustment Administration from news, magazine and other published sources." Paper-clipper Bilbo's reported salary...
Governor Roosevelt did not define his character with equal precision, did not say who he was, where he lived, what he did. When Alfred Emanuel Smith first beheld Mr. Roosevelt's tactics he cried "Demagog!" at his old friend "Frank," hotly declared he would "take off my coat & vest and fight to the end against any candidate" who tried to set class against class, rich against poor. But as the campaign progressed, the Governor continued to flatter and comfort a vague and various mass of the electorate by charging that President Hoover had overlooked them in administering Depression relief...
...McCook, Neb. (pop. 6,688) Governor Roosevelt greeted Republican Senator William Norris as "the very perfect gentle knight of American progressive ideals." Declared the Democratic nominee: "Senator Norris, I go along with you because you follow in their footsteps? 'radical' like Jefferson, 'demagog' like Jackson, 'idealist' like Lincoln, 'wild' like Theodore Roosevelt, 'theorist' like Wilson." Replied Nebraska's Senior Senator: "What this country needs is another Roosevelt in the White House...
...investing public of America-foreign securities on the implied understanding that these securities have been passed on or approved by the State Department."- 9) "High public officials in the next administration will neither by word nor deed seek to influence the prices of stocks or bonds." While Republicans cried "Demagog!" and "childish" after the Columbus speech, many a Democrat, encouraged by the nominee's flash and fire, began to feel that here was, after all, another Roosevelt for national leader...