Word: idol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inherent weakness of Governor Roosevelt's candidacy has been made manifest to the country. . . . These results dispose completely of the Roosevelt propaganda that he is the idol of the masses. . . . Mr. Roosevelt's protestations of interest in the forgotten man have brought him just nowhere. . . . The real reason is that the people of the East know about Mr. Roosevelt and gradually have taken his measure. They just do not believe in him. They have detected something hollow in him, something synthetic, something pretended and calculated...
...worse team could have been chosen. Mr. Montagu Norman [today Governor of the Bank of England], is the high priest of the golden calf [i. e. the Gold Standard] and his main preoccupation was to keep his idol burnished and supreme in the pantheon of commerce. In his honest view it was the only god to lead the nation out of the wilderness. Such a person was a dangerous counsellor for a man of Mr. Baldwin's equipment...
Might it not be possible that the motive, in this instance, was not for money, but to strike a blow against organized society by taking the child of a national idol? Presidents have been shot and bombs have been set off for similar motives...
...wrong to classify them all under one head, because all of them that are at all advanced in their field are individual and have a particular technique which cannot be well duplicated. Crooning is an art, and should be recognized as such. Young America loves to build up an idol, making it far greater than it deserves, and then with equal fickleness tearing it down with all the savagery of an enraged chipmunk. I have known many men who 'croon' who are as fine and good friends as one could wish--Downey, Vallee, Colombo, and others...
...modern American life: the growing tyranny of the press and increased sub-servience to gangsterism. Both the amount and nature of the publicity given to this kidnapping story would have seemed unbelievable five years ago. And who thought that the man whom America set up as its post-war idol would be forced to acknowledge that under-world characters rather than the regular police force could best help him in his predicament...