Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This gruesome assortment of musicians has been using radio the last four months to lead a new trend in U.S. music. It is a deliberate trend back to the corniest ragtime possible. The City Slickers under Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones have made their greatest hit with a barnyard version of the Bronx-cheerful Der Führer's Face. Jones's name for it: "A very violent comic type of music...
...78th Congress had yet to enact an important law-yet by last week it had reversed the whole legislative trend of the last ten years. For a decade Congress, at the Administration's prodding, has hounded economic royalists, corporations, public utilities. Now the 78th, turning squarely around, was hounding the Administration...
...such reasons-the trend toward conservatism that he sees in such events as the recent U.S. elections, and the trend toward nationalism-Koestler concludes...
...comparisons of the Hitler and Roosevelt governments are mere hollow re-cchoings of the reactionary chant of the politically blind and deaf: the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Legion, the Tydings-Cox-Dics entente in Congress. His branding of Administration officials as "Nazi New Dealers" carries the systematic trend towards national distrust and confusion one step further. It borders on sedition...
...illustration of the present antidemocratic trend in the Morocco regime is furnished by Vichy's Legion of Veterans. . . . Ninety percent of the Frenchmen who joined . . . believed it a legitimate veterans' organization. Since then they have found that it is anti-Allied, antiliberal, antiSemitic, anti-Freemason and pro-Vichy and pro-Axis. . . . The legion, by one means or another, controls the lives of thousands of people despite the American landings...