Word: pacifists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first showed the efficacy of prontosil (forerunner of the miracle-drug sulfanilamide) in treating streptococcal infections. The Nobel committee thus serenely ignored Adolf Hitler's ban on Nobel Prizes for Germans, wrathfully decreed by the Führer after the 1935 Peace Prize was awarded to tuberculous Pacifist Carl von Ossietsky, whom the Nazis had under heel in a concentration camp. Last week Professor Domagk discreetly referred to his Government the question of what to do about his award, murmured: "Even if I don't receive the money, the honor of being named is a most agreeable surprise...
...birthday. A highlight of the current show is Still Life with Ferdinand, the toys Mark chose when Aaron asked him what he would like in a picture. Friends have interpreted it as an allegory of the Spanish civil war: the straw general on horseback towering over the pacifist bull Ferdinand, war's destruction symbolized by the torn-out limbs of the rubber doll, monarchy lurking in the book Babar the King. Mark and Aaron both smile at this. They like the picture for the same reason others like it-because even when he chooses unpretty things to paint, Artist...
Shaggy-haired, 69-year-old Bogeyman Bigelow was a Congregational minister who, after taking over a Cincinnati church in 1896, leased it to a burlesque house, later founded his own "People's Church." In 1917 he was horsewhipped for pacifist preachings. Cincinnati knows him chiefly as a chameleon of political thought. He has been a Coughlinite, a Townsendite, an Independent on the City Council, onetime Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, Republican candidate for a seat in the General Assembly, an elected Democrat to the Assembly, in 1936 an elected Democrat to Congress. Now he is mostly Bigelowite...
...France almost all writers were patriots, and those who were not did little talking. Notable exception was Jean Giono (The Song of the World), pacifist and peasant legendmaker of the Basses-Alps, who in September 1938 organized the peasants of his province to revolt against mobilization. This time Giono wrote the gendarmerie of his village that he would not obey the mobilization order. He was clapped into jail (TIME...
Miss Mary Felton, of the Youth Committee, Against War, announced that her committee would give a dinner on Armistice Day in memory of Eugene V. Debs, famous war time pacifist, and after the dinner would distribute anti-war-leaflets among the spectators at the American Legion parade on the Boston Common...