Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: In a year which saw man's greed, stupidity, inhumanity, soar to unprecedented heights, one must look to physical rather than intellectual qualifications to define the Man of the Year. Peak product of the youngest race an symbol of its ascendancy-inevitable Jesse Owens...
...Ernest Mayer, refugee German-Jewish publisher. Black Star handles such foreign writers as Emil Ludwig and Paul Claudel as well as some 50 European, Asian, African photographers. The agency's name was selected in the hope that some day it might be represented merely by a quickly identifiable symbol...
...which permits no liquor display or advertising of any kind. Only State whose board actually favors linking Santa Caus with liquor is New York. There authorities declared that the patron of Christmas is "not actually a saint, but a character of fiction, not a Biblical character, but merely the symbol of happiness and good cheer...
...people to save their democracy and their individual initiative, as well as their pocketbooks for the time being. The Swedes have a democracy much like the English democracy, with a benevolent and hard-working king who fills a deep-seated need for color and is also a symbol about which the various and opposed political parties find a common focus. They love their king and they love their personal rights, just as they love in right proportions their safety (in co-operation) and their freedom (in individual enterprises...
...also ready with his own White police force and his own skeleton force of civil servants ready to install them in the Government buildings which his artillery was "dusting" with light shells. Franco police were trimly attired and wore the hard, tricornered hats which to Spaniards are the normal symbol of law & order. The Generalissimo's program was Back to Normalcy for Spain...