Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doubtless the Chancellor of the Exchequer could not be held to this exact meaning of his words, but even in the loosest sense he clearly meant that the United Kingdom will not risk the Italian attack which oil sanctions might touch off unless a preponderance of other Great Powers pledge themselves to spring instantly to the armed aid of Britannia at her very first cry of "Help...
...successor was appointed, and Pepys became Secretary. He made the fur fly. He put down "corruption, laissez-faire and boozy optimism" with a stern official hand. Says Biographer Bryant: "By his precept and example Pepys was to transform an inchoate and ill-directed service into the most enduring, exact and potent instrument of force seen on this disorderly planet since the days of Imperial Rome...
Although Fascism has been in power for more than ten years in Italy, for nearly three in Germany, the exact meaning of the word and the character of the social and economic organization it describes are still confused for most U. S. readers. Last week Lawrence Dennis offered a cold and logical definition of Fascism in a work which presented the aims of such a movement in U. S. terms, visualizing a dictatorship over economic life and suggesting the character, aims and personnel of the political party that might exercise this control. Scarcely mentioning German and Italian Fascism as examples...
Last week Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl ruled that hereafter the 4.000 employes of District of Columbia public schools must swear every month that they have not "taught or advocated" Communism, otherwise go without pay checks. Since the ruling failed to define the exact meaning of "teach," school officials were in a worse quandary than ever. Not so Major General Fries. Said he: "Three cheers for McCarl! That's just fine. When the law reads so clearly there's nothing else to do but observe...
...that such a writer could be widely hailed and honored as a U. S. spokesman at a time when stronger talents were condemned to frustration and neglect. Nor are such readers likely to derive much enjoyment from Tertius van Dyke's pious biography of his father, with its exact and well-documented accounts of Henry van Dyke's fishing trips, its exhaustive records of his ineffectual activities in politics, its methodical report of his achievements as pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church of New York, its detailed study of the honors, awards and testimonials bestowed upon...