Word: constitutionalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painters were not fighters. He himself had served his first jail sentence at 13 (for sparking a student strike). At 15 he became a lieutenant in the Battalón Mama, a children's army which did yeoman service for liberal Venustiano Carranza in his 1913 Constitutionalist uprising. In 1922 he wrote an art manifesto which his two fellow revolutionists of Mexico's Big Three in painting, Rivera and Orozco, both signed. Its thesis: painting is social propaganda and should have nothing to do with ivory tower esthetes or private collectors. Green-eyed, eagle-beaked Siqueiros stayed violent...
...Constitutionalist. This was the kind of political oratory that the House ate up. But the big point John Rankin wanted to get across was that he opposed the federal ballot-he called it a "bobtailed monstrosity"-because it was unconstitutional. His voice quavered, and his lean finger pointed toward the skylight as he talked of the Constitution. Nothing else would sway John Rankin. "When my conscience is clear . . . I am not afraid of all the forces of evil, everything from Drew Pearson to PM and back to Wendell Will-ah, Walter Winchell." He closed by reciting the whole of Invictus...
...practical results have followed. Another $1,886,963 of coal-tax collections goes into the U. S. Treasury. Although many a mine-union leader (and a few producers) hopes the price schedules will straighten the industry out, even they are anything but confident. To the Supreme Court, Able Constitutionalist Jackson called the act "well within the Federal power," but said, "I don't know whether it is ever going to work." Even if it survives the Court and starts to work by fall, it expires next April, can continue only by Act of Congress before that time...