Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more famed New Deal martyr, Fred C. Perkins of York, Pa. Because he could not pay workers in his battery plant NRA code wages, the big, hairy-fisted onetime Cornell footballer went to jail for 18 days, was fined $1,500, became the nation's prime symbol of the "little man" oppressed by NRA (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934 et seq.). Since then the Perkins' battery business has gone steadily downhill, due, he believes, to the New Deal's rural electrification program and to the fact that his competitors call him a "jailbird...
...Boulder Dam!" he cried, "In the name of the people of the United States, to whom you, Boulder Dam, are a symbol of greater things in the future; in the honored presence of guests from many nations, I call you to life...
...Locarno Room, where the "Spirit of Locarno" was distilled into a pact which was to have made France and Germany friends (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925), the new treaty was hailed by Foreign Secretary Eden as "a symbol of freely agreed partnership between the British and Egyptian peoples...
Last week the new railway was a symbol of the genuine Progress achieved under Chiang's party which calls itself the Kuomintang. Japan forced dissolution of all locals of the Knomintang in North China last year (TIME, Dec. 2). Last week the Tokyo dailies declared that the Japanese Army now demands that Premier Chiang dissolve the locals of the Kuomintang in all China. In the North the local regime in Hopei and Chahar Provinces established by Chinese under Japanese auspices last week took for itself the kind of autonomy which in China matters most, autonomy in collecting and keeping...
Nearly 1,000 Negro physicians, surgeons and dentists assembled last week in Philadelphia for the 42nd annual convention of the National Medical Association. As a symbol of interracial fraternity, Dr. Peter Marshall Murray, 46, gynecologist of New York City's Harlem Hospital, removed a multiple fibroid tumor from a patient in Philadelphia General Hospital, first piece of surgery ever performed by a Negro practitioner in that white hospital's long history...