Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reaction at Yale to the sudden cancellation of Saturday's Bowl game-the first such occurrence in over 35 years- was termed "favorable" last night by the Daily News, Yale newspaper. Students, the paper said, seem glad to take precautions against the possible spread of polio, but there is no widespread fear or panic...
More tragic was the reaction of 73-year-old Dr. Alberto F. Jordan, presiding judge of the Buenos Aires civil high court. When a Senate telegram told him that he had not been confirmed, the old man went into his study, pulled out a revolver and shot himself. The Peronista press ignored his death. Even Buenos Aires' once-great and independent La, Prensa played it pianissimo. In an obituary praising Jordan's 40 years on the bench, La Prensa reported he had died "unexpectedly...
...President, already singed by the reaction to his selection of Politico Tom Clark, was reported not too anxious to lay himself open to the charge of another political appointment so soon. If his anxiety outweighed his friendship for loyal Democrat McGrath, ex-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the most likely possibilities for Rutledge's seat seemed to be Wyoming's Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Justice Harold M. Stephens of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Connecticut Senator Brien McMahon, or former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson...
Giuliano's reaction to all the hubbub ran true to form. While the police prepared for the manhunt, his 20 or so men staged two more hit & run raids on police barracks, raising the total police and carabinieri killings attributed to them to an even 100. In a new letter to the Palermo press Giuliano proposed: "Let us give the judgment to the people of Sicily and have a poll. If the people condemn me, I promise that I will resign. But if the people want me, I want to follow my destiny...
...same kind of courage was shown six months later when Igor Gouzenko, a Russian cipher clerk, fled from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with evidence of a Communist spy ring in Canada. Prime Minister King, who was trying to stay neutral in the cold war, dreaded the Russians' reaction to a spy scandal. St. Laurent, who had refused to listen to Gouzenko when he first came to his office with the spy data, saw it differently. He ordered 14 suspects locked up and held incommunicado while a secretly appointed Royal Commission dug up the facts. St. Laurent's political opponents...