Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brutally last week Dictator Kemal snubbed the useless loyalty of Turkey's eunuchs. An admirer of Italian Fascism, he had borrowed Mussolini's bachelor tax idea. But when he set out to test it in the district of Smyrna, he chose to forget about Turkey's unique variety of bachelor, unknown in Italy. To the Turkish tax collectors, the eunuchs were neither women nor married men; hence, they were bachelors liable to the tax. Other men could escape the levy by means of a hasty marriage to one of Turkey's still ample supply of women...
Mr.Carnahan in his "Romanticism among the Realists" sweeps us over large areas of contemporary life. "The theory of present day Fascism may be briefly. expressed as the negation of the Democratic principle." We can hardly deny this, and might also assent to the proposition that in order to forecast the future "it would be necessary to subdivide Faseism and Communism into their ideal and practical forms. We should then be able to contemplate the four alternatives in the pure splendor of their conception...
There are still flashes of the old Mencken: "This moral reformer is a creature peculiar to relatively civilized societies; among savages he would be recognized instantly for the public enemy that he is, and disposed of out of hand." He speaks of Bolshevism and Fascism as "the new non-Euclidean theologies." Of the Catholic Church and its flock he writes jovially: "The whip it cracks over them is barbed with the fear of Hell, but the cracking is done with infinite discretion, and a fine understanding of psychology as she blows in the lower IQ brackets." But the necessities...
...would, if taken seriously, have been an exhibition of sophomoric folly. So long as our students see the dangers and absurdities alike in parades for peace and in the forceful militarization of the youth of a nation we need have little fear in this country of "revolution" or of "Fascism." Long life to the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club! --New York Herald-Tribune...
...Keynote address was delivered by Secretary Browder, who cried: "Our task is to win the majority of the working class to our program. We do not have unlimited time to accomplish this. Tempo, speed of development of our work, becomes the decisive factor in determining victory or defeat. For Fascism is rearing its ugly head more boldly every day in the United States...