Word: unamerican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mean to skip the ones which are likely to pinch someone's toes, or those which are not in deep and concordant harmony with the men of the press. Since my side has already been branded as red, conservative, capitalist, illiterate, and what hurts most-unamerican, let me add that they are also human beings and as such would like to receive equal, fair consideration in the news, without discrimination...
...superior: when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Landlubber Josephus Daniels. But that was the great formative period of his life. It was then that he had discovered his moving principle: action. Do something. If that fails, do something else. Always action; inaction is conservatism, stagnation, unAmerican. Biographer Ernest Lindley described his as "the type of mind to which little is impossible and nothing inevitable." To be a great President he would have to try and try again for national unity of purpose, letting disagreements over details, methods, means fall where they might. He had long ago learned...
Until last week, the 1940 political campaign had been conducted in such a rarefied ideological atmosphere that it seemed, to many a voter, almost unAmerican. The whole thing is too intellectual, the voters seemed to say, and the hell with it. Last week affairs took a sharp down turn into the realm of barroom argument. Anybody could understand and appreciate such minor campaign issues...
...argument is unAmerican. It is an economic tenet of democracy that the free laborer produces more than the slave-laborer. If highly paid labor does not produce even more in proportion to its higher standard than subsistence labor, then democracy has not been economically feasible...
...dachshund was popularized by the American and English people, and regardless of the country of origin of the breed, the treatment of this dog brands the malefactors as unAmerican, unChristian, and a disgrace to the human race. I am a dachshund owner and I might further state that my dog is a better dog than any of us are men. He has never knowingly harmed anyone. I can't say that about any person. I trust the owners of Hans have sufficient money to see that he receives the care he needs...