Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poll to name the most reaction ary U. S. college president, Colgate's burly George Barton Cutten would be likely to win hands down. Dr. Cutten boasts that he is a rugged individualist and last year declared that God also "is a reactionary...
Most sympathetic foreign reaction to the Roosevelt message came from Britain. British Broadcasting Corp. aired the full text for its own listeners. Salient passages were also sent into Germany, Italy and France during the nightly "straight news" period from the powerful Daventry transmitter. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who has been soundly scored for months by many Britons for not saying what Mr. Roosevelt did, jumped on the Washington speech for a political free ride. He adopted the Roosevelt sentiments about the aggressor nations...
...Federation of University Conservative Associations defeated, 14-to-10, a resolution supporting the Prime Minister's foreign policy "and in particular the policy of renewing friendship with Italy." While only 1,000 strong, the Association's reaction is significant, since it supplies the Conservative Party with many of its college-trained candidates. Its president is Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade...
...premier is not popular, has never held an elective office. His entire official career has been spent in the Department of Justice and the Privy Council. Both these institutions are surrounded by a forbidding wall of secrecy, are regarded by liberal Japanese as respectively the dungeon and citadel of reaction...
...called National Emergency Council, headed by aggressive Lowell Mellett, ex-editor of the Washington News. NEC does some ticklish inside jobs: e.g., before Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black accepted a medal from the Southern Conference for Human Welfare last November, he phoned Low Mellett to ascertain if public reaction would be favorable. This week Congressman Bruce Barton, Manhattan adman who knows a pressagent when he sees one, introduced a bill to abolish the whole NEC, charging "Its distinguished membership is only a front for a band of 290 pressagents...