Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PREMIER Poincaré, to extremist Deputies : "Keep to the subject and abstain, I beseech you, from all personal attacks. Remember France of which you are representatives. She is worthy of your respect. We will honor her in showing ourselves worthy of her. While France is watching you, other countries are watching you, too." After this speech had failed to quiet the Deputies, Premier Poincaré and the whole Cabinet marched out of the Chamber...
...Eric Geddes, brother of Sir Auckland, the retiring British Ambassador to the U. S., advised the panic-mongers to calm themselves. "This," said he, "is not the time for panic mongering or wild talk. Undoubtedly the advent of a new party?a most inexperienced party?of which certain extremists make proposals which shock us, has caused uneasiness, but there has been no panic, nor anything that can be described as such. The sky is not black with pound notes winging their way across the Atlantic, but doubtless much investment is being done abroad. However, world trade and British prosperity...
That the majority faction of the Social Democratic Party became the minority at the Brussels Conference was due to the merest accident of party mismanagement. At the Conference, which began in Brussels and finished in London, the extremist minority was more strongly represented than the moderate majority; the tables were turned and hence forth the party factions became known as Bolsheviki and Mensheviki, although in reality these were misnomers...
...Party principle that women should be treated on terms of literal equality with men, would abrogate nearly all the rights and immunities that women have won in industry, in domestic relations, and as child-bearers, after a continuous struggle of half a century. Women leaders opposed to the extremist tactics of the National Women's Party assert that because of the fundamental and inescapable differences between men and women in physique, endurance, and social function, the relinquishment of women's privileges would plunge them back into chattel slavery-a slavery dictated not by the superior authority...
...disbanded, and in place of these organizations there is to be a regularly organized and uniformed body of police composed equally of Protestants and Roman Catholics. Such an agreement is a distinct victory for the Free Staters and is sure to strengthen them in the face of the extremist elements...