Word: illuminati
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said that whenever the U. S. had "paused on the long trail of progress," women had been "right there with their first-aid kits. The state at which we have arrived," she cried, "did not spring up in a night. It dates back to the Secret Order of the Illuminati, which was organized in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt of Bavaria, and which caused the fomenting of revolutions in Europe." From Adam Weishaupt it was only a step to Karl Marx, and from Karl Marx Mrs. Brosseau proceeded to the New Deal. Imploring her audience to "work together to keep...
...government machinery needs a majority, in constituency as well as in council. Further, the Major's support was, as the support of most reform candidates must be, a compound highly unstable and volatile. He was selected by three well defined and normally hostile groups, the regular Republican machine, the illuminati, and a large class of emotional malcontents whose judgments are never continuous, and who cannot be relied upon in any crisis which attempts at reform may bring...
...simple a reform as the realignment of the municipal bureaucracy, to which Major LaGuardia is pledged, will sour the patronage list and antagonize the Republican machine. The illuminati will support it, but an examination of Mr. Walter Fisher's Chicago reform league would indicate that even an organized elite is extremely prone to diffusion, so that it is not a very significant help in a political struggle, where a pachydermatous hide is the greatest single asset, and where means must sometimes yield to ends...