Word: reign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This latest fever in the New York schools' "reign one of day terror" came just one day after the (TIME, New Dec. 14) York City Teachers Guild (A. F. of L.) and other teacher groups openly asked police to protect them from violent students. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia replied that the terror was exaggerated, that the New York cop would remain the children's friend...
This incident is only a climax in a reign of terror for New York City teachers. Recently teachers have had their eyes blackened by students, been hit by rocks, pelted with blackboard erasers. One girl has struck at least nine teachers, who are for bidden to lift a finger (though a male teacher recently risked his job to trounce a boy who had insulted a woman teacher...
Thus ended the reign of the most high-handed, lowbrowed local dictator that U.S. politics has known since the days of the late Huey Long. Posing as a great man suffering for the common people (although his campaigns were financed by reactionary moneybags who liked his low-tax policy). Gene Talmadge had pulled strings and lopped the heads of Georgia politicos for 15 years...
...left are recent paintings by the once bitterest satirist in modern German art. In World War I, in which he fought unwillingly-he was a pacifist-Berlin-born George Grosz conceived an emetic loathing for man and all his works. A magazine illustrator in Kaiser Wilhelm's reign, he turned a ferocious drawing pen on post-war Germany, ripped at its vitals in thousands of drawings that resembled the scrawls of a shell-shocked child. His savage pictures, famed in art circles the world over, showed thick-lipped, cigar-chewing bankers leering at mincingly decrepit prostitutes; mad-eyed, marble...
...commentaries on American government since that same state expelled five Socialists from the Legislature. The American Legion, inspired by a clause in its preamble promising a defense of Americanism, has applied for a writ banning the Communist Party from the ballot next fall. In several upstate counties a virtual reign of terror has been undertaken in an attempt to force signers of the nominating petitions to repudiate their signatures. All this, in the name of "Americanism...