Word: ism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last Stand." As Socialist Thomas saw it last week, the U. S. is heading for a "highly nationalistic form of Fascism" which will be "the last stand of Capital-ism." The country, he believes, is ripe for a dictatorship, with the mass of people stunned into inaction by the Depression. All that is lacking is the dictator himself. The Bonus Expeditionary Force encamped at the capital, he once thought, offered fertile soil for such a backward movement but its leaders did not measure up to the political opportunity. "If the country wasn't so sprawling." declared Socialist Thomas...
...from Connecticut's Senator Frederic Collin Walcott, onetime vice president in the banking house of Bonbright & Co. A close personal and political friend of the President's, Senator Walcott together with Senator James Couzens persuaded the Committee to investigate bulls as well as bears. "We are not seeking sensational-ism," he said. "And we are going about this in a sane way. There is no intention ... to seek legislation interfering with the regular operations of the stock exchanges...
...sham ble, mock shyness and ability on horse back, are all ideal for the role, and it does not matter that his drawl is Oklahoma in stead of Connecticut. His personality and his multifarious activities have made him by this time, even to Americans, a figure symbolic of American ism. Next best part : dignified old William Farnum, the hero of many a two-fisted thriller some ten years ago, as King Arthur...
...Professor Hanna eventually dis proved those tenuous charges of modern ism. He obediently accepted the whole papal program. Pius X relented, made him auxiliary bishop of San Francisco and titular bishop of Titopolis (1912). A new Pope, Benedict XV, promoted the onetime suspect to the archiepiscopal throne...
...parties is Sir Thomas Lipton." Such high-sounding words as Idealism and Service have little to do with Achieve ment, says Pitkin. "A man by the name of William Randolph Hearst built up the largest and most profitable newspaper and magazine business in America. By Ideal ism? By Service? A citizen known as Doheny has built up one of the vastest oil businesses on earth. Has anybody ever found a chemical trace of Idealism and Service in him?" The Author. Walter Boughton Pitkin, 52, is himself no mean achiever. At 14 he herded cattle, delivered packages for a Detroit drygoods...