Word: devout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five months ago the "Nationalists" won the Spanish Civil War. They were as strange a mixture as can be found in a Catalan bouillabaisse: Bourbon Generals and aristocrats, plutocrats, devout and royalist Carlist Requetés, radical Fascist Falangists, Moors, Germans, Italians...
Stanchest supporter of Dutch Premier Dr. Hendrikus Colijn is his soverign, Queen Wilhelmina. Dr. Colijn is a devout Calvinist and a churchman who knows his Bible backwards and forwards. Her Majesty is the apotheosis of Protestantism e conservative, strong-willed Premier believes in balanced budgets, light taxes and a strong currency even in these days of cockeyed national finances; this seems the essence of good sense to the thrifty Queen...
...Netherlands electorate does not agree with Her Majesty, however, and the thrifty, devout Calvinist Premier's Anti-Revolutionary Party is outnumbered by both Catholic and Socialist Parties. Dr Colijn has ruled by forming unstable coalitions with the Catholics. Month ago the Cabinet split because the young energetic Catholics wanted to pitch into the unemployment problem with expensive public works and generous relief. This old Dr Colijn could not permit, for the budget was already unbalanced by an extensive armament program. The Cabinet resigned...
...They did not risk the splits and premature rough stuff that C. I. O. permitted to occur elsewhere. Chicago packinghouse labor lives "back of the yards" in a wide, dismal area of ramshackle homes and crumby tenements. Nearly all now belong to the C. I. O. Nearly all are devout Roman Catholics...
...When the democracies accuse us of lack of political morality, it is because they have history behind them while we stand before ours-and youth is usually more immoral than old age. An old proverb says that the worst prostitutes become the most devout deaconesses in old age-and it is the same way in politics...