Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free enterprise, it met and answered an anguished cry for action, and for a plan. Maybe America didn't come out of the depression quite as fast as some foreign countries, but it didn't end up in a war as fast, either. If public works are a less vicious shot in the arm than armament programs, and a little slower to take effect, still it is pleasanter to see a man driving over a bridge than bombing one. Undeniably the New Deal has made tremendous social reforms, but Mr. Frank, while admitting their value, still condemns the economic methods...
...that when his Yankee totalitarianism is established, "there won't be any Catholics". In his platform, James left an absurdly obvious loophole: "Freedom for religious worship is guaranteed for all groups." The doubtful logic of this statement he now supports by stressing that he is opposed only to certain vicious practices of Catholics, and not to their religion as a whole. Yet actually he went on, identifying a part with the whole, playing upon prejudices, and building an organization to smash all Catholics...
Beyond the resentment which all Americans will feel when they read of the activities of the Yankee-American. Action, Harvard has an additional and more personal grudge against the "Red Shirts." For Harvard has been imposed upon, it has been unwittingly implicated in an insidious and vicious movement with which it has not the slightest sympathy. The racial and religious intolerance evidenced by "Yankee-American" James's blasts against the Irish Catholics, the reactionary demand for limited suffrage, the ridiculous accusations against Harvard's own Professor Heinrich Bruening--all this is a far cry from the liberalism for which Harvard...
...Russ Morgan. . . . Victor claims that it is going to swipe Duke Ellington, Horace Heldt, Kay Kayser, and a couple of other bands away from Columbia records in February. All we can say is that this record racket, which totalled 70,000,000 sales last year, is really getting vicious...
Last week Chairman Dies, ill in Orange, Texas, turned in an initial report that one New Dealer called as vicious a document as he had ever seen. Hurriedly New Dealers Voorhis, et al. rushed into action, supplanted their own toned-down version...