Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another speech made last week by President Hoover was to the governing board of the Pan-American Union. Its gist: "Pan-American Day will become an outward symbol of the constantly strengthening unity of purpose and unity of ideals of the republics of this hemisphere. . . . This spirit of mutual helpfulness is the cornerstone of true Pan-Americanism...
...Long after he retired as British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and became politically impotent, effigies of Sir Austen continued to be burned in Russia, first because his monocle is a bourgeois-British symbol (British Laborites do not wear them) and second because Sir Austen's rush of teeth could easily be exaggerated by Soviet effigy-stuffers into something quite repulsive...
...vain to suppose that our problems can be dealt with by rallying the people to some crusade that can be expressed in a symbol, a phrase, a set of 16 principles, or a program. If that is what progressives are looking for today they will look in vain...
...Shoals plants would quickly and convincingly show up all the iniquities he had charged against the "Power Trust." As part of his public v. private power fight he built Muscle Shoals up into a major political issue far beyond its physical dimension. It became, in his hands, the supreme symbol of Government operation of water power. Over & over again a Senate majority sustained his position...
...Muscle Shoals legislation is no longer a question of disposing of a War activity. ... It has been transformed into a political symbol and is expected to be a political issue. To be against Senator Norris' bill appears to be cause for denunciation as being in league with the power companies. It appears also as the test of views upon Government operation and distribution of power and Government manufacture of commodities...