Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Royal, reactionary Hungary, the kingdom without a King, overflows with secret societies and patriotic leagues. Three months ago an old one reappeared, known as the Society of Awakened Magyars, a chief tenet of which was that all unmarried Hungarian girls over 12 should wear chastity belts. Last week brought another when along the cafe fronts of the Corso marched a stalwart line of little people no higher than the table tops with banners at their head marked "JUSTICE FOR DWARFS," "MIDGETS,AWAKE...
Press of business has kept President Roosevelt, a year in office, from acting on what has for decades been a prime tenet of his party-revision of Republican tariffs. Last week he finally got down to the problem of devising a tariff and foreign trade program for his Administration. To his office he called George N. Peek, once head of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Secretaries Hull, Wallace and Roper; Robert Lincoln O'Brien, chairman of U. S. Tariff Commission, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Dickinson, Assistant Secretary of State Sayre, Harry F. Payer, foreign trade...
...swing to the opposite extreme has been excessive. Education in the humanistic sense has become an anachronism in the American school. The chief reason for this state of affairs must rest with Teachers College of Columbia University and its disciples; it is a powerful directive force, and its main tenet is that the child should learn by "expressing himself" rather than by submitting to an academic discipline. For this purpose vast sums have been spent on schools replete with all the paraphernalia of the New Education, and the result is a nation suffering from acute maleducation...
Finally certain Jews-who contribute to Nazi funds-are supposed to be outside the application of Hitlerism's most if not only definite tenet: antiSemitism. In their Jew baiting (and in every Communist, Nazis see a "tainted" German, probably Jewish if his ancestry were known) the Hitler Storm Troopers take real pleasure. True Germans, they feel, are instinctively Jew-baiters. To prove this Nazis quote...
...finds even worse. Though alert copywriters should pounce merrily on "humor . . . and the human element in situations and merchandise," he warns that they must not be funny more than 5% of the time. He admits: "I do not think there is anything funny about a Baldwin locomotive." Chief tenet of Adman Collins' advertising creed is honesty. He deplores the blasts of exaggeration which have undermined buyers' minds with skepticism. Now 34. he proposes to strike out for himself as Kenneth Collins, Inc. Graduated by the University of Washington in 1919, he declined a Rhodes scholarship, taught freshman composition...