Word: fascism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called big businessmen the "dervishes of Wall St." He rasped that Hugh Johnson had "mental saddle sores." He lampooned Wendell Willkie as the "barefoot Wall Street lawyer." He even fought with Harry Hopkins and earned Cordell Hull's cold antagonism by blasting away at Fascism long before...
...think that such extensive movements as Fascism and Nazism have been killed in a moment--like that?" queried Salvemini snapping his fingers. To say that all Italians or Germans are Fascists or Nazis is Idiotic, but there are still a great many Nazis and Fascists left who would like to get back into control. Also, there are many Italians who, without being Fascists, think of the Mussolini era as "the good old days...
...fascist revival, or to use the current term: NeoFacism. "The horrible experience which Italy has been through will keep her wary of any such plans," he declared. "But, on the other hand, the mistakes made in Italy by England and the United States have made Democracy as unpopular as Fascism. Many Italians look at it very simply; Democracy is Fascism plus hypocrisy. Many Italians will next turn to Communism. They don't think very deeply about anything: Fascism failed, Democracy seems to be failing, let us try Communism...
...tremendous appetite for the feast of peace it saw ahead-but it suffered from gas on the stomach. The belly-rumblings last week were audible. Labor yelled: "Fascism!" Management yelled: "Socialism!" Homesick G.I.s made unsoldierly uproar around the world (see ARMY & NAVY), and the prestige of the U.S. Army went down like a falling star, carrying the nation's prestige with...
...same sense of worldwide polity. Cuba, Chile and Peru got their first cardinals, while Brazil and Argentina were upped to two apiece. Most notable Latin choice: tall, taciturn, efficient Bishop Antonio Caggiano of Rosario, builder of Argentina's Catholic Action movement, who has often shown hatred of Fascism and antiSemitism...