Word: banishment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that widely diffused feeling, and surely there could be no profounder break with human tradition and existing forms of government than that. But that revolution did not realize itself. The League of Nations, we can all admit now, was a poor and ineffective outcome of that revolutionary proposal to banish armed conflict from the world and inaugurate a new life for mankind. It was too conservative of existing things, halfhearted, diplomatic. And since, as more and more of us are beginning to realize now, there can be no more peace or safety on earth without a profound reconstruction...
...happiness and success. . . . Mintolean Mojou Lucky Oil is not a product of African tribes or of foreign countries, and will not produce luck or have any effect on dice soaked in it. ... Dr. Colbert's House Dressing Balls will not always produce luck, peace, happiness and plenty; or banish discontent...
...Congressman Bruce Barton, who as a good advertising man would never try to put Business on the spot, said in Rochester: ". . . The [New Deal] heresies are being swept away; the threats [to Business] are one by one being dispelled; the responsibility now comes directly to industry. Its leaders mast banish unemployment from America . . . put men and women back to work. This is their challenge and their opportunity. . . ." The one sign vouchsafed up to last week's end indicated that Business will do very little until Congress has done much more. Said National Association of Manufacturers' President Howard Coonley...
...Angriff version of Esther was labeled The Tale of a King and His Jewish Girl Friend. It told how King Ahasuerus of Persia was lured into marriage by the Jewess Esther, how she persuaded him to banish the Jew-baiting Vizier Haman, and thus saved the Persian Jews from massacre. Adding details not found in the original, Der Angriff related that the King was later murdered and his kingdom, "infected and poisoned by Jews," finally went to pieces...
...Catholic cries out against any civic philosophy which would degrade man to the position of a soulless pawn in a sordid game of power and prestige, or would seek to banish him from membership in the human family; ... he opposes any social philosophy which would regard man as a mere chattel in commercial competition for profit, or would set him at the throat of his fellows in a blind, brutish class struggle for existence...