Word: shibboleth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hinting to South Carolina about his preference in Senators, four other States last week held primaries which instructed both Franklin Roosevelt and his enemies that in politics there are still a few issues besides the New Deal. Internationalist, Graft, Third Termer, Million Dollar Candidate, many another symbol or shibboleth antedating March 4, 1933, rang through the hot campaign...
...history as the convention in Ripon. Into the pavilion swarmed some 5,000 invited guests, for whose benefit its interior had been deodorized, its gallery strung with U. S. and Wisconsin flags and with banners bearing the strange device of a cross within a circle, a new American shibboleth. Ushers were Wisconsin football players wearing red sweaters with huge white Ws. Originator, organizer and chief speaker at the meeting was Wisconsin's bespectacled 41-year-old Governor Philip Fox La Follette, whose supporters last spring ousted from the University's presidency Mr. Glenn Frank...
...Galician troops went down to the shore and jubilantly planted their red & gold banners in the sands. Not a few hands made the ceremony complete by going in for a swim. The populace under Leftist rule for the past 21 months changed politics quickly. Shouting the Franco shibboleth, "Viva España!", they lined the streets as the troops marched in, singing "For God, Fatherland and King did our ancestors battle! For God, Fatherland and King also battle...
...Governor was not slow to give the New Deal credit for supplying much needed leadership. "Remember the people were hungry for leadership in those dark days of 1932 and 1933. Remember he (Roosevelt) gave it to them . . ." Aiken denounced the practice of appealing to the shibboleth of state's rights in the face of the need for government action...
...keep out of war is at best a complicated problem. Economic rivalry, racial and class hatred, propaganda of powerful interests, and the shibboleth of "national honor", all combine to warp the individual's judgment, especially in times of tension. The effect a single person can exercise in molding public opinion is pitifully small, so that the wish a person may have to be a force for peace is hampered by lack of knowledge of how to go about it, and by a feeling of futility in not getting very much done. Yet the most effective method of keeping the peace...