Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tuberculosis, that no laws prevent them from spreading their infections in classrooms. Dr. Hall urged the Academy to plump for examinations of teachers, to educate parents to insist on health cards for domestics. In wealthy Westchester County, N. Y., where 25% of high-school children had a positive tuberculin reaction, an organized campaign of adult health examinations, at the low price of $7 a person a year, .was started by 500 physicians last spring...
...elections of 1936, Edouard Daladier became War Minister, under Leon Blum, serving as part of France's New Deal which ousted the 200 families from control of the Bank of France, which established the , 40-hour week, which refused to crack down on sit-down strikers. When reaction to these measures finally forced out Socialist Blum for good, a less radical leader came to power: Radical Socialist Edouard Daladier. Socialists and Communists gave him day-by-day support, but it was easy to see that the Popular Front's days were numbered. Edouard Daladier became Premier...
With the proper accompaniment of supernatural reaction, the airing of Crimson crew victories was snapped Saturday on Lake Cayuga by a powerful cornell eight in the teeth of a tempest. The defeat was the first in eleven starts since the Navy race...
Lieut. General Robert H. Haining, commander of the British forces in Palestine, mustered 15,000 troops, 7.300 policemen, and 700 aviators to counter the expected Jewish reaction. Jews have spilled little blood in retaliation for Arab terrorism, but the British "betrayal" made many of them fighting mad. Indignant manifestoes were loudly cheered at mass meetings: "Palestine Jewry declares this betrayal policy will never materialize. Palestine Jewry will fight it with all its forces." In Jerusalem 5,000 demonstrators armed with stones battled club-swinging police. Toll: 135 Jews and five constables injured; one constable killed. Most Jews regretted the actions...
Only one striking reaction came from the 300 Congressmen who came, listened and departed. It was provided by Manhattan's Representative Sol Bloom (who attended with Mrs. Bloom and Daughter Vera). Promoted to the important Foreign Relations Committee by his ex-colleague, New Deal purge victim John O'Connor, Sol Bloom has spent much of his time selling George Washington to the American people. But this time, after eating his way through an evening of Roosevelt-hating speeches, Sol got up to sell FDR to the folks. One lone, small boo came from the audience, but it found...