Word: pious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lady Houston expressed in her magazine an uncritical admiration for Benito Mussolini, "the greatest Ruler in the World today," and for Adolf Hitler. To her, neither of these somewhat frightening characters could do wrong, nor could such standpatters as Canada's rich and pious Richard Bedford Bennett, onetime Premier...
...appeal to the judiciary it was hardly likely to carry much weight. The Justices of the Supreme Court have the Preamble and Article I of the Constitution already by heart. The Court long ago declared that the Preamble was only a declaration of pious hope conferring no power on the Federal Government. Furthermore, the particular subject matter, NRA, on which the President made his appeal, happened to be the one major New Deal project which no member of the Court, liberal or conservative, found constitutional. Thus the likelihood of a reversal is negligible...
...Doom, abdicated King Edward VIII went to the lectern and in a clear, ringing voice read the second Scripture Lesson. It was about Biblical David (Luke II, 1-20), and the Duke has always been called David in his own family. This performance was taken to be a retort pious to the Archbishops of England and a clincher on the pastor of Vienna's English Church, Rev. Dr. C. D. H. Grimes, to perform the wedding of David Windsor some time next spring to the Woman...
...would up the work week from 35 to 40 hours when the current contract expires March 31. Or it might be a steel strike. Some 250 steel company-union leaders rallied at a missionary meeting of Leader Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization in Pittsburgh last week, heard his pious and progressive lieutenant, Philip Murray, claim that Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers has already enrolled 128,000 of the nation's 500,000 steel workers, threaten trouble unless steelmasters cease their "dog-in-the-manger attitude." C. I. O. also defied its antagonists in the great...
...produce to finance his wire-pulling, actively cultivated English gentlemen who had no compromising connection with the rebels. The result was that Connecticut and Rhode Island received liberal charters guaranteeing them freedom of worship, democratic rights, while England itself remained in the grip of repression for another quarter-century. Pious Rhode Islanders believed it divine mercy resulting from their steadfast adherence to God's laws. But shrewd Professor Andrews thinks that Englishmen were already secretly opposed to religious repression, willing to experiment abroad in granting rights they would not concede at home...