Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improper practices or abuses of any kind now being carried on, either by holding companies or by operating companies, the industry will welcome an opportunity to negotiate and arrange for their removal. . . . I am confident that if the problem is approached by representatives of all concerned who are not extremists . . . a solution can be found. . . ." The bulky, florid gentleman who called on the President last week would never classify himself an extremist. He founded his $700,000,000 holding company 31 years ago with the motto: "To develop the State of New Jersey and to make it a better place...
Madrid, Oct. 6, (Saturday)--The Spanish government, sitting in war council and besieged by reports of rebellion from every section of the Republic prepared today to smash the extremist revolt by throwing every loyal regiment at its command into the field...
Lanvin made her first dresses at home for her daughter, who is now the Comtesse de Polignac. Others liked them so well that they went to Mme Lanvin to be dressed. Never an extremist, she bases nearly all of her designs on historical fashions or documents, adapting and reworking them to modern colors and materials. The results are regal and highly dramatic, which is one reason why she is patronized by European grandes dames, South Americans, French actresses...
...wait, to reserve judgment, until that knowledge comes into our possession. That goes for Fundamentalists and Modernists alike. The die-hard Fundamentalist is quite wrong, I think, in insisting upon a word-for-word and letter-for-letter correctness of the King James version. And the Modernist-the extremist at the other end-he's just as wrong in leaping to snap judgments and wild conclusions on mere textual criticism...
...that permitting some kind of worship is better than the church being expelled entirely. ... 'A field abandoned is a field lost' is said to be his view. . . . He feels that a rupture between Spain and the Vatican would not help any but would be likely to evoke extremist anti-church manifestations...