Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people call themselves Bahamians or Rhodesians, New Zealanders or Canadians, but are at heart Englishmen first, last and always, is properly and politely called the British Commonwealth of Nations. In wartime, it is the British Empire. No test applied to its unity could be more certain of positive reaction than the test of Hitlerism: autarchic despotism v. the birthright of freeborn Britons. The British Empire's far-flung parts approached that test last week in different ways. Alphabetically...
...column carried the United Press story of his indictment, the other column an Associated Press story of the Annenberg reaction to the indictment. Excerpts...
...came reports of above-average crops. All told, world wheat production for 1939 was estimated at 3,995,000,000 bushels, exclusive of Russia and China, world consumption at about 3,970,000,000 bushels, with 1939's carryover estimated at 1,217,000,000 bushels. One European reaction: a German-Rumanian barter deal by which Rumania agreed to deliver 50,000 carloads of wheat to far-from-friendly Germany and Italy, Germany to deliver arms to her frightened, potential victim, Rumania...
...pickle prospects are good. Probable gross: slightly better than 1938's $40,000,000. Pressing problems for this year are a shortage of dills (a reaction from last year's overselling of the dill market) and a dearth of one-bite pickles. Last year's summer rains played hob with this year's little fellows. Cucumbers grew overnight from midgets to larger sizes before they could be picked. This year's prospects (for next year's pickles) are better...
despair . . . black reaction . . . Fascism...