Word: unamerican
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unalterably opposed to any class government, whether it be the existing dictatorship of plutocracy or the dictatorship of the proletariat. Both are essentially undemocratic and unAmerican. Both are destructive of private initiative and individual liberty...
...United States boils down to this: Never go near a "council" table at which any other nation has a right to speak. Never confer. Never listen. The attitude of the United States toward other nations must always be: "We do not argue with you. We tell you." Debate is unAmerican. . . . Watch for earthquakes, famines and the like. These visitations afford a chance to point to good-samaritanism. . . . Never try to understand Europe. ... Be as selfish as you like...
...Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has a publication known as The Clipsheet. The following article recently appeared under the caption "UnAmerican Indecency in New York Theatres...
William A. Brady, theatrical producer: "In a speech before the Chicago Woman's Club I said: 'Motion picture censorship in unAmerican. ... As a matter of fact, every reputable producer would send to Sing Sing any person who deliberately put a filthy scene on the screen...
...department is bitter. The gist of the attack runs: " The whole plan for national control of education in any degree whatever, to the exclusion of local control, is vicious. It means another department, another set of insulating bureaucrats and a complication in the mechanism of administration. The word 'unAmerican' has still a certain meaning, in spite of Mr. Babbitt and his journalistic friends. It describes a point of view out of all harmony with the basic principles of the National Government. And in that sense of the word this entire attempt to place in the Administration at Washington...