Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paunchy little man stood quietly behind the marble rostrum, uneasy in his unaccustomed formal clothes, his shrewd, warm eyes downcast, his bald head shining dully in the soft glow from the vast skylight. Inches from his right hand was the gavel, the symbol of the authority he would now wield as Speaker of the House, until death or defeat of the Democrats. Sam Rayburn, 58, of Bonham, Tex., bachelor, shorthorn breeder, and for seven years a moderator of the New Deal, was waiting to speak his piece...
There is an extraordinary fact about English democracy-namely, that at almost any given time some English leader turns out to be a perfect symbol of his people. At the time of Edward VIII's abdication, Stanley Baldwin was the typical Englishman. At the time of the Munich crisis, Neville Chamberlain was pathetically typical. But as of the fourth week of September 1940, Winston Churchill was the essence of his land. The three men are as dissimilar as fog, rain and hail, which are all water. But the country they ruled has changed. This England is different...
Died. Leonor Fresnel Loree, 82, retired (1938) head of Delaware & Hudson Railroad; of a heart attack; at his mountain estate near West Orange, N.J. Among sleek, ICC-conscious latterday railroad presidents, massive (300-lb.), buffalo-bearded, uncompromising Leonor Loree seemed a gaudy symbol of the roaring '80s, when he began his long career. In 60 years he headed more roads, introduced more permanent operating innovations, made a higher salary ($100,000) than any surviving railroader. His last spectacular gesture came in 1933, when he bought his way (for $10,000,000) into the No. 1 stockholder's seat...
...supply of ivory towers--traditional symbol of academic isolation from current events--is going to be a lot greater than the demand this year. Many a Harvard faculty member who has in the past cultivated an "objective" approach will in 1940 do an about-face. Emphasis will be placed on "integrating scholarship with the problems of life today," and on "relating education to society...
...Germans, the world is fond of remembering, are a thoroughgoing people. In the Alsatian town of Zabern in 1918 some Frenchmen planted a tree to grow as a symbol of the return of Alsace to France. Up to this tree last week marched Hitler Youth Leader Wilde, followed by a bevy of apple-cheeked youths with axes and drums. "For Germany this tree is a symbol of slavery and oppression," cried Leader Wilde. "Now the tree must fall." Drums rolled. Axes fell. Down came the tree. Hitler youths tore its roots out of the earth and marched away shouting "Sieg...