Word: plums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgium the No. 1 Fascist is personable, passionate young Leon Degrelle, a dynamic demagog with a confident way of dashing about in high-powered cars, bounding up on platforms and generally acting and talking as if Belgium were a ripe plum just about to plump itself by an avalanche of votes into his lap-as Germany plumped into Hitler's. In his campaign speeches last week Orator Degrelle roared that his academic, scholarly opponent Premier Dr. Paul van Zeeland is "tainted with Americanisms," referred to Economist van Zeeland's professorial work at Princeton in scathing terms, accused...
...aged 90 and 80 years, tell me of his soldiers' taking off all the silver that was not buried including a silver urn that had come to the family from General Francis Marion, "the Swamp Fox." This Yankee soldier beat the handsome silver vessel against an early blossoming plum tree until it was flat and would fit into his saddle...
...plum of a college presidency goes more often to an outsider than an insider. Last week the administrators of Tulane University in New Orleans turned their backs on that precedent as Yale did last month (TIME, Feb. 22), by electing as Tulane's next president Dr. Rufus Carrollton Harris, the 39-year-old Dean of Tulane's crack law school...
...pacifist because he would rather spend taxes on schools and other internal improvements than on supporting a very modern army. But how are the schools and other internal affairs to be protected from outside invasion? Does he want us to become a country of pacifitsts, a ripe plum of easy picking for any other country in the world today? The leading American statesmen of today realize that isolation is no longer sufficient to keep us out of European politics and wars. If isolation is to be no longer enough protection, then we must have some protection. Like most militarists...
Aside from the battleground of the Middle West, New York State with its forty-seven votes is the most luscious plum in the electoral pie, and Governor Lehman's record is one which should convince any thinking voter to "try try again" with the Republican ticket. For four long years, the Empire State's capital has been infested with a complete, though small-scale New Deal government. Lehman has made of the most powerful state in the union a mere pawn in the hands of his eccentric leader in Washington...