Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...character and work of Louis Brandeis. For this man throughout his career has been a fighter for the democratic ideal. Never content with a single triumph, he realized that the only safeguard of democracy was eternal vigilance. And this idea prompted his unceasing opposition to the forces of reaction, as his background so well illustrates...
...sold Congress and Congress sold the U. S. the Social Security Act, the biggest, most comprehensive, most expensive mass insurance policy ever written. Since then its purchasers, the nation's taxpayers, have had occasion to read their policy carefully and, if they have detected no outright jokers, their reaction has been such that practically every politician in the U. S. from Franklin Roosevelt down has put revision of Social Security at the top of his must list. Last week, as the House Ways & Means Committee began hearings on proposed ways & means to make the Act work better, the revisers...
...finely crinkled, leathery quality often found in Spaniards. Never a dandy, he now dresses adequately but with indifference, is only a bit touchy about being short (5 ft. 3 in.). A plausible theory for the usual dirt and disorder of his rooms is that it is largely reaction from the neatness enforced by his bourgeois wife...
...American reaction to this article, written by Dr. J. Stark, was a manifesto signed by 1,284 scientists, calling upon their colleagues to participate actively in the defense of democracy "to the end that there shall never be an un-American physics...
This was undoubtedly a contributing cause of last week's market break. A more important contributing cause was the prolonged hesitation in U. S. business recovery. After the six-month recovery which culminated in December, a reaction was to be expected. But by last week recovery had been stalled a full month and there was still no indication of immediate improvement...