Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Wallace, Harold Ickes, Leon Henderson, Eleanor Roosevelt cried out against the bill. New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, his eye on the governorship, went so far as to proclaim a municipal "Veto Day." Two former chairmen of the old War Labor Board, William H. Davis and George W. Taylor, said the bill was unworkable. The National Catholic Welfare Conference (membership: all U.S. Catholic bishops) condemned it as playing right into the hands of Communists. The Communists cried that the bill was a sellout to reactionaries...
...Protestants in Italy are enjoying the last weeks of liberty to proclaim their faith with rights more or less equal to Roman Catholicism's. This spring, barring some development not now foreseen in Rome, a new postFascist constitution will be approved which will put Italian Protestantism back into the same strait-jacket that Mussolini kept...
...proclaim its charter, the Gallery last week put on exhibition 50 newly acquired portraits. One was a sketch by John Keats (see cut) of Painter Benjamin Haydon, which Keats himself described as "a vile caricature." Beside it hung Haydon's profile of Keats, which was not much better...
...welter of systems that proclaim the true road to scholastic success, Perry has developed his own method of teaching study skills that result in durable learning and defining just what they are. In his "counsel" sessions Perry emphasizes to students that the principal objective is to think and not to rely on books or notes to do their thinking for them...
...Around? "What is your aim, what is ours? To prevent Europe again becoming a battlefield. ... To reach this aim, it is necessary to build a Europe. Then-we are first to proclaim it-integrate Germany in this Europe. But, on the other hand, we must not try to build Europe around Germany...