Word: stigma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sibilant words, came to his peroration: "If you hold this resolution Constitutional, Congress will have put a stig-" at that point his false teeth popped clean out of his mouth. He grabbed his plate, just as it reached the green baize table, shoved it back in his mouth, continued "stigma on the good name of the country...
Warner issued the following statement last night: "Harvard, in its position as one of the leading colleges of the country, should not allow itself to be branded with the stigma of standing by while war comes closer. The Committee means to do whatever can be done to combat...
Even an indictment is of course no evidence of guilt but in actual practice it takes a long time to erase by an acquittal the stigma of the indictment. To this would now be added an indictment in the press in the first instance...
...Germany. Switzerland and Holland, by agreeing to increase their imports of German goods, have received full and preferential interest transfers. As for Adolf Hitler, one of his war cries has been against the iniquity of "interest slavery," the payment of interest being tainted in his mind with a stigma not unlike that attached by President Roosevelt to hoarding. So hot grew the squabbling of U. S. private creditors for their interest in Berlin last week that Dr. Schacht rushed off for a rest to Kiel. "I admit the necessity of paying interest on borrowed capital," said he, "but the common...
...structure of good will between foreign and American students. I firmly believe that any future attempts to excite nationalistic and racial prejudices on the part of unauthorized and obviously uninformed persons should be definitely discouraged. . . We must guard against allowing the flotsam of political prejudice casting upon us the stigma that we allow ourselves to be msekly impressed by odoriferous brochures whose sole motivation is the more petty aspects of race antagonism and national chillblains. In this letter I can only appeal to the good sense of the majority of Harvard students to ignore the ridiculous attempts of the nationalist...