Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frederic C. Morehouse of Milwaukee, editor of the Living Church, led an Episcopalian reaction against the report on church unity, objecting that to outline a definite plan for a reunion of sects was beyond the conference's agreed function. Five other final reports -on the gospel, the nature of the church, the ministry, creeds and sacraments-were adopted. The sixth, on actual unity, was returned to the continuation committee for further study...
...some hundreds of tourists all able to boast that they had read newspapers at midnight by the light of what Norwegians call the Midnat Sol. To newsgatherers Captain Wilhelm Muller of this cruise ship, the Hamburg-American liner Reliance, confided that there had been a great difference in the reaction of the U. S. and German cruise passengers to the Midnight Sun; The Germans, forethoughtful, began to "practice sleeping in the light," as soon as the Reliance left Hamburg on her way north. "Practice" consisted in turning on all the lights in one's stateroom at night and accustoming...
...reached the New York Stock Exchange after closing hours. Next morning bedlam reigned?a bedlam of selling. It looked as though Wall Street's interpretation was that the "Coolidge Bull Market" had ended. But by luncheon time, the shrewd were profiting by the haste of the nervous. A buying reaction set in that expressed Wall Street's more considered faith in the availability of Mr. Coolidge if needed and the stability of the G. O. P. if he is not needed. The net decline of 50 representative stocks on the day of "panic" was only 1 2/4 points...
...years later he was chosen leader of the Seiyukai party, and amid the national financial crisis of last spring he became Premier (TIME, May 2). All his life Baron Tanaka has had the honorable reputation of being a good fellow. His powerful constitution seems to make only a favorable reaction to quantities of the finer alcoholic beverages; and he is considered one of the most gentlemanly frequenters of geisha houses in Japan...
Having stated his Chinese policy and defended it with arguments that have weight, chiefly in Communist circles, M. Stalin discussed the "White Scare" which sprang up in Russia as a reaction...