Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assert themselves in the face of such reverses, the Radical authorities last week executed at Valencia the No. 1 Spanish Fascist, Don Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Marques d'Estella, son of the late Spanish Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera. Meanwhile, fighting at Madrid, the No. 1 Spanish Anarchist, famed General Buenaventura Durruti, was killed...
...Tucumcari, N. Mex., stung to fighting pitch by his Los Angeles booing and by recent Roosevelt speeches, disputing virtually every one of the President's tax points. Alf Landon struck harder and straighter at Franklin Roosevelt than ever before, accused him of "misrepresenting" the facts, went on to assert: "He is using the people's money directly and indirectly to secure his re-election...
...great need, as any corrector of examinations will assert with great fervour, is to teach students to organize ideas, to write with reasonable lucidity. Reading, of course, is necessary, but it should be strictly subordinated to composition. In the first semester in particular, it would be helpful to read fine models, such, for example, a chapter in Travelyan's "History of England", do a little correlated reading in the library, and then rewrite a chapter, not with the intention of aping the style, but with an eye to clear, precise, and thoroughly readable presentation of facts...
...Northern Ireland are fanatical adherents of the Crown, regard it as a Protestant bulwark protecting them from their Catholic enemies in the Free State. First with astonishment, then with fury, Belfast Orangemen read a recent prognostication in Reynolds Illustrated News of London that the new King-Emperor may assert himself by trying to end the feud which divides his Irish subjects and bring the whole island under one Government. If His Majesty had any such ideas the Orangemen had no use for him, and up in Belfast they promptly raised a huge portrait of Edward VIII captioned "DOWN WITH...
...America, Inc. is Cathrine Curtis, a tall, grey-haired onetime radio commentator. Wearing a tan costume and a roughrider hat, Director Curtis keynoted: "Have we been blinded by demagogs? Have we been lulled to a state of catalepsy by political pap, or have we been too lazy to assert and demand our sovereign rights? . . . Capitalism is not a devouring monster, and all the bitter denunciations emanating from ignorant and prejudiced sources cannot alter the fact that America owes her supremacy in world affairs to capitalism. . . . Woman, of course, through her great ownership of insurance, trust funds, stocks, savings bank accounts...