Word: paganization
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...SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF PUERTO RICO, ELECTED BY UNIVERSAL MALE AND FEMALE SUFFRAGE ONE YEAR AGO, HAVE TODAY APPROVED A RESOLUTION, WITH VOTES NOT ONLY OF MAJORITY PARTY BUT OF ALL PARTIES REPRESENTED IN THE LEGISLATURE, VIGOROUSLY REPUDIATING THE ATTACK BY PUERTO RICAN RESIDENT COMMISSIONER BOLIVAR PAGAN AGAINST GOVERNOR TUGWELL AS FALSE IN ITS IRRESPONSIBLE ALLEGATIONS AND AS PROVIDING, UNLESS REPUDIATED BY THE PEOPLE AND THE LEGISLATURE, A BASIS FOR NAZI PROPAGANDA IN LATIN AMERICA WHICH IS ALREADY BEING USED BY THE BERLIN RADIO...
...picture which the Mahler popularizers paint of a genial pantheistic pagan who has achieved complete harmony within himself is entirely false. Mahler lived in a confused time and was himself a mass of contradictory tendencies. You have in him the paradox of a composer who, in contrast to the tone-painting and theme-overlapping of Wagner and Strauss, wrote in the classical symphonic form with a sound knowledge of counter-point, yet one who was essentially homophonic in style and never attained the balance and integrated development that the classical forms imply...
...White House went an angry cable from leaders of Puerto Rico's Coalition Party, begging President Roosevelt to take Rex Tugwell away. In Washington, slick-haired, solemn Bolivar Pagan, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, passionately denounced Rex Tugwell as "an American quisling." Said Commissioner Pagan: "He is doing everything so that loyal American citizens in Puerto Rico become sore and disunited. . . . Governor Tugwell is doing a good job for the Axis powers...
Neither Commissioner Pagan nor the Coalition leaders seemed to think that Governor Tugwell was a wicked man: they just thought he was a wrong...
...dangerous as the questioning mind. In Russia, "the Orthodox Church, the Jewish synagogue, the Mohammedan mosque, the sectarian meetinghouse, have been involved in a common ruin." In Germany the extremist persecutors of the church troop back to the primeval forest to revive the fervors of Wotan worship and inspire pagan Siegfrieds to blitz the Fafnirs of "pluto-democracy." History, the record of the race, has been perverted to glorify the party, the leader, or serve the changeable politics of the total state...