Word: gracchi
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...Gracchi, well-to-do representatives of a great family tradition, allied themselves with the plebs, or common people. Yet the Gracchan attempt to solve the land crisis that had been caused by the growth of the monopolistic latifundia, or great estates, was beaten back by the republican Senate...
...crossed the Rubicon on his way to make himself dictator, the story of Rome is told in terms that should be familiar to everyone who has seen a Hitler and a Mussolini rise to power with the support of the multitudes. Unlike modern precursors and advocates of totalitarianism, the Gracchi, Marius, Mark Antony and Julius Caesar had no great desire to overturn republican institutions. But they were pushed along the road to dictatorship by the fecklessness of the opposition...
...Eleanor Roosevelt. Turning on her old friends, the American Youth Congress and the American Newspaper Guild, for their "claptrap" talk decrying the draft, she offered up her four strapping sons, should the country need them-like Cornelia, who had no jewels to give for Rome but her sons, the Gracchi. From Washington came word that Son Elliott, who has a wife and three small children, had obtained a captain's commission in the Army Air Corps Specialists reserve, would probably be on duty in a week-well before Registration...
...Gracchi," Mr. Hammond, Sever...
Although the pseudo-modern reader may shudder to find again in print the picture of the mother of the Gracchi surrounded by her natural jewels, may be amused by the idea that the younger generation is any longer a practical object for the world's concern, Mr. Macy will find few male enemies by his treatment of woman as trouble and mischief-maker. Quoting, and later characterizing as "smart-aleck," Max Beerbohm's description of the militant suffragettes as the "army of the unenjoyed," he finds behind the W. C. T. U. and similar organizations the unconscious desire to ruin...