Word: demagogism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan at an Associated Press luncheon (see p. 46), Secretary Ickes denounced, without naming, a "demagog" whose share-the-wealth scheme was "a base and loathsome thing . . . despicable beyond my powers of description...
Whether the placing of Huey Long's picture on the front cover of TIME'S April 1 number was by design or otherwise I wish to extend to you my congratulations. Argument avails nothing with this type of demagog, so one is driven to resort to the method you have so ably used here in meeting their libelous attacks that of holding them out to the public as plain fools...
...Demagog into Dictator. When New Orleans Democrats went to the polls to select two Congressmen, a State Supreme Court judge and a Public Service commissioner, Senator Huey Pierce Long had mobilized Louisiana's entire national guard to insure a "clean election." He had also made his Legislature pass enough laws month before to turn over to his henchmen complete control of the electoral machinery (TIME, Aug. 27). No match for the "Kingfish" in legislative wiles, Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley had an augmented police force of 2,000 which nearly equalled Senator Long's militant manpower...
...loudspeaker which, by a twitch of the dial, let him hear debates in House or Senate. On the other was an electric gadget which, by means of red and green lights, told him how each member of each chamber downstairs voted. Senator Long may be mocked as a cheap demagog by the nation-at-large and his popularity with Louisiana voters may be on the wane, but at Baton Rouge he is still an autocrat. In a fashion which would have won instinctive approval from Benito Mussolini, he began to get things done...
...world knows for sure is that Hitler has somehow managed to capture the submarine of state. The Berlin Diaries, purporting to be the genuine journal of an anonymous Berlin War Office official, gives an eyewitness day-by-day account of the muddled machinations that made a loud demagog into Germany's Chancellor. Sure to be labeled propaganda or forgery by indignant Nazis, the essential authenticity of The Berlin, Diaries is vouched for by Edgar Ansel Mowrer, onetime Berlin correspondent of the Chicago Daily News and head of the Berlin Foreign Correspondents' Bureau until expelled from Germany last year...