Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet statesmen suddenly boiled over with an indignation they could scarcely have felt had they believed their own Communist propaganda* all these years. Instead of facing a great league of enemies, Russia faced only a pact of two or three-yet Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff lost his temper completely in Moscow last week and abandoned those niceties of diplomatic procedure which ordinarily he likes to observe...
...love, Janet had the additional ill luck to be given an inquiring and unconventional mind in an environment where any unprecedented action created talk. She tormented the Vicar with her peace meetings and suffraget agitation as much as he tormented her with his prejudices, his temper, his complaints that she had ruined his career. Only her deep friendship for a dour Scottish spinster, whose plays became successful, saved her, and when they quarreled over votes-for-women Janet was completely broken. She tried to set fire to her husband's church, drove him out of his mind, worked...
Last September Republican managers, alarmed at an August slump in his popularity, persuaded Nominee Landon to begin a "fighting campaign." Bit by bit his temper rose; his attacks grew stern, next vigorous, next angry. As the campaign entered its final week, they reached full fury. Not Frank Knox, not John Hamilton had ever shouted a blacker, more fearful prophecy of the doom in store for the U. S. if Alf Landon should fail of election than did Alf Landon himself when, at Baltimore this week, he cried...
...need for shorter working hours on shipboard and recognizing the union leaders as the official voice of labor. When the contracts expired, the shipping companies sought to rid them selves of union interference and return to the old "free for all" system. And since neither side has good temper enough to arbitrate, with Secretary Perkins pointing an accusing finger at the employers as the prime offenders, the seamen have taken the final step of calling out a strike...
...contrast, most newspaper cartooning of the campaign has been dismally lacking in fun. For oldtime jest and jibe, most cartoonists have substituted grim seriousness, sullen partisanship. A charitable explanation is that the Roosevelt-Landon campaign has been a confused, bad-tempered one, and cartoonists have simply reflected the temper of their editors and readers...