Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name of the many thousands of Lutheran ministers suffering today in Germany unimaginable misery with no means to voice their protest and in the name of all those of my fellow-ministers in the U. S. who shall rise as one against such an interpretation I must ask you, the editors, and the designer to clarify that phase of the picture, in order to dispel any doubt in the minds of your readers...
...industrial mobilization. They range from the expert military reporting of New York Timesman Hanson Baldwin to the jingoistic sloganeering ("Two Ships For One") of the tabloid New York News, but their effect is the same: stirring up a war psychology in the nation. That psychology has been on the rise in Washington since Franklin Roosevelt's "quarantine" speech in 1937. Publishers, editors, correspondents produce more & more newspaper stories about it, abetted by Roosevelt advisers like Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson and Bernard Baruch. As in the years leading up to 1917, it is becoming difficult to tell where...
Clearly Playwright Shaw's soft-spoken melodrama is a parable of how the gentle souls of the world, taxed too far, rise up and destroy their oppressors, whether neighborhood bullies or world-famed Reichsführers. Put as blithely as Shaw puts it, it is a cheering idea. The trouble is that, while it makes The Gentle People a likable fable, it makes it an absurd play. Humorous mood and melodramatic plot refuse to jell. Murder is usually a fairly serious business, and murder conceived and carried out by two good-natured fishermen should be fairly agonizing. Instead...
...visiting lecturer at the University since 1934, Salvemini taught in Italy before Mussolini's rise to power forced the outspoken critic of Fascism to flee his native land
Basic doctrines of European Socialism up until a few years ago were internationalism, disarmament, pacifism. Last week a vote at the Socialist Party Congress of France at Montrouge, suburb of Paris, showed dramatically how the rise of European dictatorships has changed those doctrines...