Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally the Conservative Daily Telegraph ably summed up London's reaction to Chicago thus: "Scenes like these have never occurred in Europe within the mem ory of the living, and couldn't possibly occur. We are looking at a social organization which has united the riches and luxury of the most modern civilization with the manners and customs of particularly disorderly mining camps...
...Youthful reaction against materialistic concepts and in favor of reality in religion, social justice, human brotherhood and international peace...
...there is little if any danger of a drastic reaction in the stock market as a result of wild trading...
...advanced for the move; but David K. Niles, associate director of the Forum, sees behind this action the shadow of the Blue Menace, which for a decade has been growing more and more potent in this state. Born of the anti-Red agitation immediately after the war, this undemocratic reaction found agents for its platform in a few super-patriotic organizations, and a means to stifle free speech in the black list...
...present few can see any great danger of a Red invasion, and the overthrow of government by radicals of extreme doctrines. Much more urgent a matter is the policy of the opposite party, which, under the guise of protecting defenceless America from pernicious Reds, wields a powerful weapon of reaction. The same group of Bolshevik-bailers that backs the closing of Ford Hall Forum lists such names as Dean Pound, Professor Bliss Perry, and the presidents of Smith and Mt. Holyoke as dangerous, and closes to them lecture platforms in towns and clubs where the black list is law. Dungeons...