Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smack! The Storm Trooper swung a left to Mr. Lepawsky's chin, knocked him back. But unlike most U. S. citizens attacked by Nazis, Messrs. Jones & Lepawsky beat no retreat. Instead, as soon as Delegate Lepawsky could recover, they rushed to the head of the marching column, demanded satisfaction from the Storm Troop Commander...
...officials, may explain in part why our Government is being defied and its Federal arbitrators made monkeys of by A. F. of L. unions in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago, Kohler and other cities. This noisy organization apparently has the present Administration on the run, casting aside in their ignominious retreat, judgment, good sense, economic considerations and humane requirements...
Overnight the Rothermere retreat from Mosley gave pause to the maker of Britain's snorting little Morris cars. Lord Nufneld, formerly Sir William Morris, reputedly a heavy contributor to Sir Oswald's Fascist war chest. In a letter to The Jewish Chronicle Lord Nufneld announced that he had just given ?250 ($1.250) to the British fund for refugees from Nazidom and roundly declared: "I never subscribed to the Fascist movement nor supported it in any way; neither have I the least antipathy toward the Jewish race. It occurs to me that the best means of evidencing the foregoing...
Over the week-end Great Little Gaston remained obstinately at his holiday retreat, but it became obvious that he must return to Paris and intervene between Minister of State Herriot and Minister of State Tardieu, each of whom was demanding that the other resign. The shock of M. Tardieu's attack sent prices down on the Paris Bourse and many editors condemned as reckless and unpatriotic his attempt to rupture the Cabinet. In an effort to give Great Little Gaston all possible support President Albert Lebrun praised his "wisdom and prudence" in a formal speech at Aurillac, then declared...
...defeatist or delighter in destiny, Author Brailsford believes ''this is not one of those hopeless moments in the world's history . . . our age is poised precariously between order and chaos. . . ." Democracy is in retreat, but democracy as the world has known it has been a middle-class laissez-faire system whose results "curiously resemble a dictatorship of the owning class. ... It is rather a prize to be won than a possession to be defended." The root of economic disorder, says Author Brailsford. is the institution of property. A planned capitalism is impossible, "a contradiction in terms...