Word: unamerican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peculiar expressions of amity. He told the Philharmonic Orchestra Association of Southern California that America's primary cultural asset was the English language-which was gradually being destroyed through misuse. Said an Association member next day: "The insults to our nation publicly made [by Beecham] . . . were un-British, unAmerican, uncalled for and should bar him from our auditoriums...
...genius for misinterpretation, Capitol Hill reactionaries have perverted serious discussion on absenteeism into another anti-labor crusade. Entangled in inconsistencies, Congress first kills an appropriation for the formation of a committee to cope with absenteeism problems, and then proceeds to assail it blindly as the sabotage of the treacherous, unamerican working man. The Rickenbacker crowd charges that unions are promoting it, Representative Johnson threatens labor with his "work or fight" bill, but as yet nothing constructive has been accomplished towards solving a problem which is rupturing the war effort. The solution lies in cooperation and constructive investigation of the underlying...
...revenue (plus the $35,000,000,000 which present taxes will produce), from a citizenry which is just now learning what the 5% victory tax does to paychecks and will yelp with pain at the income taxes due in March. It meant compulsory savings, which sensitive Henry Morgenthau considers unAmerican. It might even mean sales taxes, which social-minded Henry Morgenthau hates even to talk about. It meant, in short, that the unhappy Secretary would have to find some way of wheedling, squeezing, talking or forcing into the Treasury an amount that is 1) one and a half times...
...ruthless robber baron who amassed $200,000,000 in the '90s, and of his corrupt, irresponsible descendants-flinthearts and playboys, women prowling Europe for titles, girls scouring Manhattan for thrills. It might have lacerated the flesh of The Big Foxes and provided a scathing picture of The Unamerican...
...work of those people who want to demagogue to speak about their 'Jewish brethren' and 'international bankers.' ... I deplore the idea that . . . men in this House . . . attempt to use the Jews as their scapegoat. I say it is unfair and I say it is unAmerican...