Word: label
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that if certain modern Americans," and the President's voice began to rasp for the first time, "who protest loudly their devotion to American ideals, were suddenly to be given a comprehensive view of the earliest American colonists and their methods of life and government, they would promptly label them socialists. . . . We know, however, that although this school persisted . . . during the first three national Administrations it was eliminated, for many years at least, under the leadership of President Thomas Jefferson and his successors. His was the first great battle for the preservation of democracy. His was the first great...
...Negrin now had under him a tight, unified, little Cabinet of nine, the sixth Leftist Cabinet since the civil war's outbreak. The refusal of the Anarcho-Syndicalists to participate in a Government that they derided as "bourgeois" worked in Dr. Negrin's favor, for that label took some of the curse of radicalism off a Government which has for ten months been trying to convince the world democracies that it is not Red. It heartened the majority of Spanish Leftists who seem to want democracy more than communism. In point of fact, the Cabinet of Dr. Negrin...
...battles between Freshmen and Sophomores; many educational institutions for young ladies make May Day festivities an impressive annual affair. Thus it goes; every college perpetuates the traditions which it finds most suitable and enjoyable, and these same traditions typify and give the college a sort of earmark or trade label by which it may be known...
...fact, 30 years ago, that these men were attempting to paint the life around them, instead of duchesses in pearls, goddesses in Greek draperies, or New England valleys in a pink mist was enough to deny them admission to most galleries and for the critics of the day to label them the "Ash-can School," the ''Black Gang" and "Apostles of Ugliness...
Machine-minded LaFollette has, apparently, decided to crush all vestiges of individual liberalism within his state. The conflict with President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin destroys what favorable connotations the label "progressive" may still have in the minds of balanced thinkers. Fragmentary reports indicate the resemblance of this clash to some of Governor Curley's ridiculous excesses on Beacon Hill. Dominated by LaFollette appointees, the Board of Regents has been summoned to dismiss President Frank. The Governor and his adherents, it is said are worried about radicalism at the University. A five man investigating committee has suggested that...