Word: octopuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investment broker, contributed a delightful Bar Panel, The Fishing Party, showing Father Neptune and mermaids tugging from sea bottom on the line of a fishing boat at the top of the composition. Heightening the picture's excitement were an approaching water spout, a shark, several drunken fishermen, an octopus assaulting a mermaid and Mapes's realistic way of making his mermaids' breasts swim pendulously in water...
...from Ovryn is the patriotic work of Simeon Horace Pickering. Titling his picture The Red Octopus, Mr. Pickering interprets Joseph Stalin with red horns and red pointed ears. From Stalin's head extend over the map of the U. S. red tentacles labeled, "League Against War & Fascism," "William Z. Foster," "The Daily Worker" (strangling a factory), "Earl Browder" (strangling the Statue of Liberty), "Herbert Benjamin," "Harry Bridges" (strangling the U. S. Capitol) and "American Student Union...
...contrary, it is violently anti-Russian and antiCommunist. But Japan's great mass of humble soldiers and many of their officers are sprung from the Japanese peasant class, the class mercilessly ground down to starvation wages and despair by entrenched Japanese middlemen ; the agglomerations of Capital held by octopus-like "family corporations"; and, lastly, by the amazing Japanese speculator, price-chiseler and profiteer who for sheer ingenious rapacity is in a class by himself...
...considered impossible of disentanglement by Pierre Laval. It appeared that after years of spiteful and ill-tempered intrigue "Edouard II" Daladier had gained at least a temporary whip hand against "Edouard I" Herriot, and that when Premier Laval returns this week from Geneva, where he is wrestling with the octopus-like Ethiopian Question, he will face the most disastrous French political muddle of his long and dexterous career...
...Kennedy, the present law has filled the bill and been approved even by the business men themselves. Surely, now that the breathing spell has arrived, a lawyer as ingenious as Mr. Landis can invent a law which will apply only to dishonesty, and at the same time be octopus-tight. Otherwise, while we thank God and Mr. Roosevelt for fair and paternal despots such as Mr. Landis, we must at the same time, as honest liberals, condemn Mr. Landis' part in drawing up and supporting such a dangerous, undemocratic, wrong bill as the one under which he so successfully operates...