Word: fusions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From these two great and lovable men springs our essential trouble. Between them they divided America in such a way that the honest labor of man could never be fused with his inner spirit, and until such fusion comes we must await the years of our own majority. Nor is Mr. Brooks without proof. What have Longfellow, with his untried sentiments, Bryant with his manufactured moralities, Emerson with his solitary self reliance got to do with the heat and the sweat of life? They are as a barrel organ beside the still, sad music of humanity. Poe and Hawthorne...
...more and more confined by mere terms, or he may go into business and forget all about his theoretical knowledge. It is possible that Mr. Tugwell, Mr. Warren, and the others are even now assisting America to come of age, but, at the moment, one still awaits that perfect fusion of theory and practice which is the essence of Mr. Brooks' maturity...
...Roosevelt at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Tammany bucked the nomination of honest Herbert Henry Lehman for Governor of the State. Tammany foisted bumbling old John Patrick O'Brien on the city as a stop-gap mayor. Tammany lost last year's municipal election to a Fusion-Republican ticket. For this accumulation of political sins Boss Curry last week paid with his head...
Thus did swart little Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia of Greater New York (childless but the parent of a small adopted daughter) describe the economy bill finally passed in his city's behalf last week by the State Legislature, ending a conflict in which a Fusion-Republican Mayor and a Regular Democratic Governor had bucked a Tammany-influenced Legislature for 100 days (TIME...
...defeat the Citizens-Fusion party could look with some pride on the past, some hope to the future. It had won two of the nine seats in the City Council. With no Seabury as Grand Inquisitor, with no LaGuardia to dramatize the issue, it had managed to present to the electorate these facts and allegations: Twenty-five members of the police department have criminal records, and the acting chief had served a term in the penitentiary; burglary insurance rates are the highest of any city in the country; Conrad Mann, president of the Chamber of Commerce and good friend...