Word: fiat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regarded as a scraggle-haired, red-gallused, cigar-smoking demagog who, while bawling at the New Deal for being "un-American," has ruled Georgia at the bayonet points of his militia. When the Legislature refused to fulfill his campaign promise of cheap automobile licenses, he created them by executive fiat, booted out his Motor Vehicle Commissioner for refusing to sell them. When the head of the potent State Highway Board refused to dismiss five of his engineers, Talmadge sent militia to seize the Board's funds, declared martial law, ousted the Board Chairman and set up a new Board...
...American Youth Congress, annual sounding board for liberal-minded youngsters, demanded more money, more say-so in spending it, loudly cheered a speaker who cried: "NYA has the possibilities of a political football. . . . We seek not doles but economic rights! We seek relief administered democratically rather than by Presidential fiat...
...century. But the Press did not hesitate to use that awful word, and although James Bunting was free to enjoy the sacraments outside Chichester, that young man professed to believe he was just as much excommunicated as if the Church had consigned him to Satan with a Fiat, fiat, fiat!* From a seaside resort Bunting, who said he had been a scenario writer in Hollywood, announced he was retaining counsel, would try to prove the Bishop wrong. Admitting he had his parents' money, he said: "In the past it may be I was a naughty boy, but there...
...deprive him . . . of the Communion of the Body and Blood of Our Lord. We separate him from the society of all Christians. . . . We declare him excommunicated and anathematized. . . . We deliver him to Satan to mortify his body, that his soul may be saved on the Day of Judgment. . . . Fiat, fiat, fiat!" ("Let it be done, let it be done, let it be done...
...Coughlin-Lemke-O'Brien platform was a marvel of inclusive appeal to every crackpot and malcontent in the land. Briefly, it proposed to create a common-man's Utopia by legislative fiat. For Lemke-Coughlin inflationists there was to be a government central bank, with complete control of money and credit, which would issue new currency to retire all Government bonds, refinance all farm and home mortgages. For Townsendites, there was "assurance of reasonable and decent security for the aged." For Share-the-Wealthers, there was limitation of individual incomes and inheritances. For the benefit of anyone...