Word: torquemadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outspoke ex-U. S. President Herbert Clark Hoover: "The blame is squarely up to the political agencies in power [in Germany]. These individuals are taking Germany back 450 years in civilization to Torquemada's expulsion of the Jews from Spain. They are bringing to Germany not alone the condemnation of the public opinion of the world. These men are building their own condemnation by mankind for centuries to come...
...Torquemada or Charles E. Hughes...
...goad the Rhode Island State Legislature into the game. Sniffing that old devil communism, the vigilants empowered their speaker to appoint the time honored investigating committee. With the old Brown facility for going one better, a grieved alumnus beseeched the Federal District Attorney to do his bit as Torquemada also. But the Herald, nothing daunted, rejoined in brave tones that theirs was "the higher patriotism...
...Possibly Torquemada is too real and lusty a term to apply to a society dominated by forces so complacent and so suburban. The nexus that binds these captious ladies with Saratoga and Bunker Hill has come to be a mere bloodless atavism. Probably the catholicity of vision required to realize that George Washington was, after all, a rebel, would be too much to ask of his spiritual daughters. But, at least, they might find innocuous content in polishing their guns and genealogies, and withdraw their febrile antiquarianism from the serious problems of politics and government...
Thus people realized, last week, the unique continuity of Grand Inquisitor Torquemada's work in Spain. Queen Isabella was no more and possibly less pious than His Most Catholic Majesty King Alfonso XIII, now ousted (TIME, April 27). In every crisis Alfonso XIII turned for intercession to the Holy Virgin. When a Cabinet was sworn in by His Majesty it was always before the Crucifix and two twinkling candles (TIME, March 2). He never permitted Protestants to build places of worship in Spain in the form of a church or to advertise or indicate by any sign the places where...