Word: whig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought of English converts to the Roman Catholic Church, he immediately recalled Messrs. Belloc, Chesterton, and D.B. Wyndham Lewis; now he adds perforce the name of Mr. Dawson. Mr. Dawson resembles his three associates in many respects: he is an historian, for example, who endeavours to re-write the Whig historians, whose anti-Catholic bias is one of the disgraces of modern historiography. Unlike Messrs. Belloc and Chesterton, Mr. Dawson is imbued with the modern ideal of impartiality, and even in his attempt to secure justice for the faith he never leans over backwards into unfairness to the unjust...
...principles of the Founding Fathers is without parallel in the history of revolutions. A hundred years after England's Revolution in 1689, which was an affair of the same type, although more decorous than ours of '76, there existed in London a Society of the Revolution, sons of Whig stalwarts. It was the program of this society, however, to bring the French Revolution to England...
...citizens are apt to forget that even at the end of the Revolutionary War nearly one-third of the population of the 13 States was still loyal to King & Country and, despite the provisions of the Treaty of Paris, suffered a white pogrom at the hands of their exultant Whig neighbors. On May 11, 1783, following arrangements between British General Carleton in New-York and the Governor of Nova Scotia, the "Spring Fleet" carrying refugees from New York dropped anchor at the mouth of the St. John River. Kept aboard their ships by high seas and driving rain, they...
President Hoover, who rarely quotes his elders, last week went back a century to borrow an oratorical sword with which to stand off the American Legion on the Soldier Bonus. The weapon had been fashioned by Daniel Webster, mighty verbal swordsman, at a Whig reception at Niblo's Garden, Manhattan, in 1837. Unearthed by French Strother, White House research secretary, it was still so pat and pointed that President Hoover grasped its hilt and made it flash and glitter in a statement explaining why the U. S. could neither tax nor borrow two billions out of its people...
...insuring his defeat by separating the candidate from his platform. "This would so antagonize the western states already suspicious of the supposed Republican alliance with big business", said Professor Carver", that it would be fatal to the Republican party. This same mistake was made by the Whig Party in 1852", he continued, "when it permitted the Southern Whigs to write the platform and the Northern Whigs to name the candidate. It destroyed the Whig Party. It was not a 'howling' success in 1928, when the Democratic Party ran a wet candidate on a dry platform, and it will...