Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albin saw the dangers. An advocate of moderation in all things, he made up his mind that now there was no room for moderation. When he raised his bushy brows to address the Riksdag last week no trace of the middle-of-the-road Social Democrat was left. Sweden would fight to the last man if attacked, said he. "Every order . . . that defense is to cease will be false...
...Republican in Philadelphia, a Democrat in Baltimore, because "I always join the worst party to work from within to clean it up." In the 1895 election, when roughs were intimidating citizens waiting to vote by poking them with shoemakers' awls, small, stocky Dr. Kelly volunteered as a poll watcher, punched a plug-ugly in the nose...
...associations for the younger generation. ... He was indeed one of the most prolific of the 'literary hacks' of that time. . . . The most interesting thing about Wells was his refusal to accept the social inferiority to which he seemed to have been born. ... He was a liberal democrat in the sense that he claimed an unlimited right to think, criticize, discuss and suggest, and he was a socialist in his antagonism to personal, racial or national monopolization. . . . Wells was a copious and repetitive essayist upon public affairs and a still more copious writer of fiction. . . . The question whether...
...many years I have spoken and written against the Nazi theory of Nordic race purity and supremacy, and against the Aryan nonsense. I have consistently condemned anti-Semitism and championed the cause of Negro rights. I believe in the desirability of biological improvement of man. I am a democrat...
Paul Ausborn was a sea captain in the German merchant marine during World War I. When it was over, he sold his ship and bought a small apartment house in Berlin. He was a Social Democrat, a mild-mannered man with a firm conviction that Germany could become a peaceful, democratic nation...