Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This rebel state, dominated by a Labor Party which recently voted sympathy with Eamon de Valera's fight for Irish freedom (TIME, April 11), has repudiated so many debts (promptly made good by the Commonwealth Treasury) that a bill to seize tax revenues of New South Wales was recently passed by the Dominion Parliament and upheld by the Australian High Court last week. Thus clothed with supreme authority, Premier Lyons promptly made proclamation to the citizens of New South Wales, ordered them to pay income taxes into his Federal Treasury and not into the State Treasury of their...
...House rebel Congressman La Guardia is a dynamo of hostile energy. Alert and quick-witted, he is always on the job. His oratory is loud, passionate, almost physical as his 170-lb. body crouches and bends and his chunky arms thrash the air. He is one of the best parliamentarians in the House. Representing a poor upper-East-Side district of Manhattan, he has developed a political philosophy which is definitely radical. He distrusts wealth, individual or corporate, believes it should somehow be redistributed for the good of all. Yet he does not sponsor crack-brained ideas for easy hand...
...exactly the one which would appeal to certain prejudices rooted in the academic mind. But the fact remains that he is a man of extraordinary talents and that he is, despite his present conservatism, not quite the type which usually receives official recognition. Once a satirist and a rebel, he has become a defender of a highly intellectual kind of authoritarianism in politics and religion as well as in literature, but he has achieved a solid fame without ever saying or writing anything which seems likely to be popular. He is the most conspicuous survivor among the group of young...
After prayers and a roll call by States beginning "Alabama-McDuffie," Democrat John Nance Garner of Texas was nominated for the Speakership amid party whoops and rebel yells. Put up against him was Republican Bertrand Snell of New York (TIME, Dec. 7). The vote: Garner, 218; Snell: 207; Schneider, a Wisconsin Insurgent: 5. None of the three voted for himself. With the House, now Democratic for the first time in twelve years, standing and cheering, Speaker Garner in a brown-speckled suit was ceremoniously led up the new blue carpet to the rostrum, duly installed. With one autocratic sweep...
...devolves upon the college men, who really should know better, to be less prodigal with their superlatives and more precise in their epithet. It behooves them, unless their exuberant natures rebel, to cultivate the love of understatement which characterizes the Latin "grand style." These measures may save the verbal coinage of America from becoming hopelessly debased...