Word: manifesto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fascist Italy's minute minority of 48,000 Jews were fearful last month that their luck might be running out (TIME, July 18). Last week they learned officially that it was running out indeed. On the heels of a manifesto drawn up by ten Fascist savants, declaring that Italians are "Aryan, Nordic and heroic" and that "Jews do not belong to the Italian race," came announcement from Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace that the Government had prepared a series of laws to "defend the race against all contamination...
LAREDO, Tex., Friday--The legislature of the State of San Luis Potosi, by a manifesto written in the manner of articles of confederation, seceded from the central government of Mexico on May 15, according to information reaching this Mexican border city today, called an extraordinary session after President Lazaro Cardenas sent government troops into the state to disarm agrarian followers of General Saturnino Cedillo. The legislature reported Cedillo commander-in-chief of the army and exhorted other states to join it in forming a provisional government for Mexico...
...discovery of the "Stark effect" (splitting of spectrum lines when a glowing gas is subjected to a strong electrical field), and his studies of "canal rays" (beams of positively charged particles passing through apertures in an electrode). In the British Journal Nature last week, Dr. Stark published a thoroughgoing manifesto entitled "The Pragmatic and the Dogmatic Spirit in Physics." His points...
...immediate impression which many an observer got from the animadversions at Madison was that they were characterized by a refreshing and appealing amateurism. To this sort of audience, Governor La Follette's five-point manifesto and 9,000-word speech, apparently a family collaboration, failed to present even a pretense of a formal body of policy for progressives or anyone else to unite on. But they indicated a thorough awareness that "for ten years the Republicans and Democrats have been fumbling the ball," that the rest of the world was even worse off, and gave evidence that if Phil...
...Manifesto on which the La Follette Progressive Party proposed to unite was summarized in five points which called for: 1) public "ownership and control of money and credit"; 2) restoring "to every American the absolute right to earn his living by the sweat of his brow"; 3) granting "the Executive branch power to get things done . . . with ample guarantees against . . . abuse of such power"; 4) security for "those who work on the farm and in the city . . . measured by ... contribution"; 5) no more "coddling or spoon-feeding . . . restore to every American the opportunity to help himself. After that...