Word: demagogics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Black is not a demagog, nor is he a statesman. Not until he took up investigations as a hobby was he able to capitalize to the full on his shrewdness and his talents. His interest in Muscle Shoals led him to aid the late Senator Thaddeus Caraway when that stoop-shouldered, sharp-witted little oldster was probing lobbies in 1929-30. And he was quick to detect the political profit for little Senators with big ears...
...Rohmer, creator of Dr. Fu Manchu, arrived aboard the Berengaria to find a suitable demagog for Dr. Fu to utilize in setting up a U. S. dictatorship. Answered cautious British Author Rohmer to newshawks' queries: "What demagog? Ah, that I don't know yet.. I'm going down to Washington to get to know your demagogs before I pick...
Congratulations! TIME scores again. ... I have read reviews of the Silver Jubilee and the biography of George V in a number of magazines-but TIME'S account tops them all. As a former Canadian, I can say that you truthfully portray His Majesty as neither showman, dictator nor demagog...
Naturally Commander James E. Van Zandt of the VFW had as his field generals in the Senate not only the loudest inflationist, Elmer Thomas, but the loudest demagog, Huey Long. Legion Commander Frank N. Belgrano Jr. had Post-Commander, now Senator, Bennett Champ Clark as his floor leader. The two forces were opposed to each other because of rivalry, and because the Legionaire-Senator Clark, who is no end proud of his parliamentary astuteness, knew well enough that there were four to six pro-Bonus Senators, willing to vote for the "sound" Vinson Bill who would not vote...
...delivered at the White House one day. And Father Coughlin who takes credit for having defeated the World Court, tried his influence again, broadcast an appeal to the President to sign the Patman Bill "in the name of the greatest lobby the people ever established. . . . You were called a demagog for uttering the same philosophy which I utter today, for reminding the people of the forgotten...