Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calls Skid Row. One morning last June, as he picked his way to work through Skid Row's reeking garbage and broken bottles, and stepped past the bodies of sleeping derelicts on the sidewalks, Daily News Managing Editor Everett C. Norlander felt his stomach turn over. His next reaction was that he was walking through a good story. When he got to his office, he called in two young rewrite men and asked: "How would you like to be bums for a while?" What Norlander wanted was an inside story of Skid Row to shock Chicago's complacent...
Nobody knows how penicillin causes this reaction, nor why it is seldom, if ever, observed when the drug is given in the form of injections...
...Guild rather than sign an anti-Communist affidavit. And Counterattack reeled off a list of Communist-front organizations which he had supported. Said Sweets, in a typical party-liner's defense: "It is not loyalty to the U.S. that is really in question. It is, rather, loyalty to reaction-loyalty, I am convinced in my case, to the ideas of the National Association of Manufacturers. For the record - I am not loyal to many of their ideas. And I never will be." The council of Sweets's union, the Radio & Television Directors' Guild, unanimously passed a resolution...
...general reaction to the plan was understandably cool. Some of the U.S. press felt that the Quakers, in their earnest search for a true realism based on the possibility of evoking the goodness in man, had been unrealistically premature. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "All men are not yet Quakers; if they were, we might more easily repose our faith in one another's virtue and good will. In the meantime, we seem fated to base our national policies on the sorrowful facts that it takes one to make a war, two to make a peace...
...newsmen agreed that, while it was not much bigger than a dollhouse, it was attractive and well built. Georgia's salty old Congressman Carl Vinson, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, had a more positive reaction. Vinson's committee was studying a bill to spend an average of $16,500 apiece for houses for 7,798 armed services families. After a look at Woods's house, the Congressman demanded: "How come the Army needs $16,000 if another Government official...