Word: taboos
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That same theory saw Presidential campaigning in defense inspection tours like the one to Newport News. Last week one political taboo was exorcised-from Washington popped a story that a New Deal spokesman had discussed the question with a representative of Wendell Willkie. The story: Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish got in touch with Russell Davenport of Wendell Willkie's staff, suggested that if Mr. Willkie would make no public criticism, President Roosevelt might request Congress to release aged U. S. destroyers that Britain needs...
Unity. For three days the word "Communism" was taboo on the convention floor, was whispered only in corridors and 'caucuses. On the fourth day it exploded on the floor after a Denver "regular" presented a resolution cautiously condemning subversive movements, "Trojan horses or fifth columns." Up sprang a Seattle insurgent to offer an amendment: "That Communism, Naziism and Fascism are not . . . indicative of [the Guild's] beliefs . . . and that this organization will not tolerate any attempt by these subversive elements to ... control [Guild] policies...
Brother Orchid (Warner). The making of movies is ringed about by taboos. But no commercial taboo is quite so terrifying as religious touchiness. Nevertheless, Hollywood has never been able to master an occasional whim to toy with the dangerous topic of religion. Brother Orchid is such a toying. It celebrates the spiritual regeneration of Edward G. Robinson (a gangster) by monastic life...
...Remembering this partiality of his. I think I shall send him a big cask of sake. The only drawback is that he must be more careful of his health. He has diabetes and alcohol is taboo. If his wife or secretary gets hold of the cask, the game's cooked...
Taken from their parents at the age of six, Indian children have been subjected to execrable' food and housing, cruel discipline, the most rudimentary education, an absolute taboo on their native language, continuous propaganda to despise their parents, their religion, their legends, their arts, their race. Through the Allotment Act (1887) the reservations were so checkered and subdivided that free movement, tribal unity, and cattle raising became impossible. Of tribal funds held in trust the Government spent 93% on "administrative costs." Every stratagem was worked to acquire for white use key lands along watercourses without which the surrounding territory...