Word: hooker
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...years the plutocratic International Settlement had taken pleasure in the Marines. It enjoyed their brass band, their weekly parades at the Racecourse, their curio buying. It enjoyed Marine personalities like Colonel Richard Stewart Hooker, who could "roar like a sea lion, or coo like a dove." It enjoyed the Marines' practical joking, as when four leathernecks started a Communist scare by raising a red cur tain on the U.S. Embassy flagpole. The nervous International Settlement took special comfort in the Marines after Shanghai's British garrison left last year, after the Japanese got control of the Settlement...
...democracy is the direct outgrowth of colonial Protestantism, with its emphasis on individual responsibility, but Dr. Maynard has a different theory: "Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers [considered] Locke's Two Treatises on Government as the Bible of the Revolution. . . . Now Locke's thought was formed by Hooker, and Hooker's thought was formed by St. Thomas Aquinas." Furthermore, most U.S. Catholics supported the Revolution "because the principles of the Revolution were so closely consonant with Catholic political philosophy...