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Word: foreignism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pointedly Mr. Woodrum read the record of Mr. Fish's Grand Tour of Europe's chancelleries last August: Fish's arrival in Oslo in the personal airplane of Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister; Fish's proposal to the Inter-Parliamentary Union of a 30-day armistice for the "four great powers" to settle European problems; Fish's statement that Germany's claims are "just." Mr. Woodrum passed over Mr. Fish's modest willingness, expressed in Berlin, to arbitrate the Danzig dispute personally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Idle Hands | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Civil Liberties. Liberals fearing that exposures of Communist machinations might lead to a curbing of U. S. civil liberties assembled last week in Manhattan to ponder questions of censorship, trade unions, rights of foreign-born citizens. Doubters who lacked confidence in U. S. democratic institutions feared that action taken against Communists might extend to other minority groups. People who doubted the vitality of U. S. trade unions feared that the Dies expose might harm, rather than help, the U. S. labor movement. To these Attorney General Frank Murphy spoke soothingly, promised that civil liberties would be preserved while subversive, disloyal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Dies | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...possible plea to Congress. . . . 'HAVE US ALL STERILIZED! . . . IF YOU PLAN ON SENDING US TO A FOREIGN WAR . . . SPARE US ANY POSSIBILITY OF EVER BRINGING CHILDREN INTO THIS WORLD-INTO THIS COUNTRY OF OURS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Slick Stuff | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS! You, men and women of America are the suckers who filled up the stockings of profiteers, propagandists and foreign politicos with your own blood-your own brain-your own money! . . . WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO FILL THEM WITH THIS TIME? With the flesh of your wives? With the bowels of your children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Slick Stuff | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...after midnight was a polished, suave, smooth-faced man who for years has been one of the Führer's confidants. He was Dr. Otto Dietrich, the Nazi Party's Press Chief. For years Dr. Dietrich has delivered annual lectures on Nazi morals and ethics to foreign correspondents. This time he had something more than morals to talk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Blood Bath | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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