Word: demagogs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aged 50, lawyer and judge, no Southern demagog, respected by his colleagues, no less obscure nationally than was Senator Harding in 1920, no more an "innovation" than any other "favorite son" candidate, Walter Franklin George of Georgia will help Southern Democrats mark time. Whether or not they profit by the experiment, he will profit by the experience...
...created equal and should no more have equal power in politics than they have in business; it's against nature. The rule of the demagog is a greater menace to national continuity than the rule of kings. Kings sometimes did great things, helped to create great civilizations, and then died out; but they did create. Demagogs never did and never will create a great civilization...
Mussolini is an amusing demagog. His oratory is chiefly interrogation. "What country do you love?" he cries. "Italy!" roar the Italians. "Who will die for Italy?" he booms. "We all will!" chorus the Italians. "Shall I go backward or forward?" he thunders. "Forward!" howls the mob. And Mussolini has gone forward.?Dr. Robert Michels of the University of Basle, contributing to the theme "Dictatorship v. Democracy in Europe...
...Koran, a marvelous conglomeration of divine edicts, personal justifications of and promises to Mohammed, paraphrases of Jewish folklore and inscrutable foreign catchwords thrown in like sacred seasoning. Occasionally there came a flash of lofty poetry. Whether or not he was a fake medium, a paranoiac, epileptic, self-deluded, oversexed demagog, Mohammed was undoubtedly a grand and grotesque figure with a good memory and a shrewd pagan appraisal of Moses and Jesus as capable men who had founded religions by giving their subconscious selves free rein...
...prepared to fight all summer if necessary. The Citizens' Committee of Passaic would like to see Albert Weisford out of the way, so they bellow "Communist" at him. Communist though he may have been; he keeps silent about it. He is a clever organizer rather than a demagog, a cynic rather than a blithering reform zealot. Yet on the platform he can twist the emotions of the masses with his vibrating voice, his puny, gesticulating hands, his restless pacing up and down...