Word: simeone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ballots of political parties preaching "sedition or treason," or the "overthrow of the government by force or violence," is pending in eleven other states at present. The most vigorous supporters of the bill are the American Legion and the Eiks, both having been inflamed by the Sage of San Simeon's anti-radical editorials. Opposing the bill are the vast propaganda resources of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...shadow hung over the Rose Room that afternoon, a shadow which stretched across the continent from a ranch at San Simeon, Calif. It was the shadow of the left-wing professors' No. 1 bogey whose mighty press from coast to coast has been hounding liberal teachers as Reds and renegades to U. S. ideals. The meeting began with Columnist Heywood Broun boxing the shadow as valiantly as he could without naming names. Historian Charles Austin Beard, who once taught at Columbia, followed him. Hawk-nosed, white-haired, clean-shaven Dr. Beard read his speech, made the point that education...
...policy unbroken since the days when he sacrificed prestige, profits and popularity to oppose U. S. entry in the War even after that entry was an accomplished fact. When President Roosevelt's message revived the World Court issue old (71) Publisher Hearst, on his lordly ranch at San Simeon, Calif., tossed his long, horsey head and charged. Hearst editorial columns throughout the land shrilled and thundered with the threat of war. No attack on the Court was too preposterous to be splashed across the front pages of Hearstpapers. Minnesota's blind, bitter Senator Thomas D. Schall contributed...
...World Court battle progressed this lobby circulated with increasing vigor among its Senatorial friends and acquaintances. Three times a day Lobbyist Kennedy telephoned "Hacienda 13 F 11" at San Simeon to report progress, to receive instructions from his chief. Meantime the Hearstlings were aided by a great Voice booming from Detroit across the length & breadth of the land...
...galleries cheered. Jubilant Hearstlings tumbled over each other in their rush to telephone San Simeon. No less than 15 Senators telephoned congratulations to Detroit. Local telegraph offices announced that since Father Coughlin's first speech two days before they had handled over 60,000 telegrams beyond their ordinary quota...