Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many in the audience, more important than any words he spoke was the fact that big Jim Farley came on to the platform beside the President-Farley, Democratic Party symbol of opposition to the Third Term...
Under all these arbitrary powers our labor movement, whose existence today is the very symbol of a democracy, stands to lose the most. Labor can and very likely will be made the complete victim of those seeking to stifle its organized effectiveness. But not only labor is in danger. Each and every one of us is directly affected by the inadequacies of the bill. We can not even be sure of our period of service, for this also is arbitrary, depending on "conditions...
...significant of the incredible and terrible events of last week was that this gag should come true-in another land of another King. The Germans removed the likeness of King Haakon from all tins of the little sardines which Norwegians call brislings. To a seagoing fisherfolk, brislings were a symbol...
...Finland Station is also a symbol. Here, in the person of Lenin, socialism first issued from the dank sub-cellars of contemporary society, where like an exterminating virus it had developed in the dark. Here socialism first ceased to be merely a theory and became a political reality. Here it prepared to master a great State, rule 170,000,000 people. But Lenin was wrong about the world revolution. It was not until 20 years later that three variants of socialism-Stalinism, Naziism, Fascism-were to combine under German leadership in a world revolution against democratic, capitalist civilization...
...attorney, was elected National Commander to succeed Detroit's Raymond Kelly; 600 men worked overtime in the rain, cleaning 210 tons of assorted parade debris off the streets; the last drunk was put on the last train. . . . All week no one had asked: "Where's Elmer?" Elmer, symbol of what the Legion was, even a year ago, had gone the way of all flesh...