Word: thenceforward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ides of March constituted the parting of the ways and were directly responsible for everything which happened thereafter. Thenceforward no small nation in Europe could feel itself secure from some new adaptation of Nazi racial superiority and jungle...
...officers or person who shall be employed at the said Mint . . . every such officer or person . . shall be deemed guilty of Felony and shall suffer death." Today this penalty has been modified to read that if the President so decides "the officers implicated . . . shall be thenceforward disqualified from holding their respective offices." Since 1792 there has been a annual assay commission to test the coins of the Republic...
...Injustice is the theme. The story opens with a minor but significant example. Bertin, who in peacetime had been a well-known German novelist, is now simply a near-sighted private in the Army Service Corps, gets into serious hot water for giving some thirsty French prisoners a drink. Thenceforward he is a marked man, is relentlessly persecuted by his superiors, given dirty and dangerous jobs, punished for no reason, refused leave...
...break the strike, employers fortnight ago "opened the waterfront" by moving freight under guard. The strikers heaved bricks, police used gas and guns, and 48 hours later National Guardsmen marched in. Thenceforward the struggle ceased to be between strikers and employers but became a struggle between strikers and the State. The marine workers appealed to their fellow unions for a general strike, and San Francisco's militant unions jumped to take sides. Some groups, reluctant to join, were intimidated. Aggressive strike leaders had, however, a potent cause, an issue to arouse emotion: should Labor impose its will or should...
...damned Prohibition and likened Andrew Mellon to Judas Iscariot, was getting 80,000 or more letters a week from his listeners. He went to Washington to appeal to the Post Office Department for a special postal substation to handle his mail. While there he too met George LeBlanc and thenceforward his sermons took on a more and more economic tinge until he was in the front of the battle for cheapening the dollar...