Word: tocsin
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...Republicans, out of office, had fewer officially famous men to sound the tocsin in their behalf. Their candidates had to campaign with less Olympian aid. Nevertheless, the Gallup poll showed them winning somewhere between five and 25 seats in the House...
...help them find out, there appeared last week a startlingly timely, strenuously objective, 252-page book whose title, Why England Slept, paraphrased Winston Churchill's tocsin, While England Slept. Its author, John F. Kennedy, 23, who was graduated as an honor student from Harvard this June, is the second son of America's philoprogenitive Ambassador to Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy. Its purpose is to arouse Americans 1) to the need of preparing for war in time of peace; 2) to the necessity of preparing for war as if they mean to fight. Says Author Kennedy: "A boxer cannot...
...Hitler-Franco treaty appeared to put the Franco imprimatur upon the works of Alfred Rosenberg, Germany's pagan, anti-Christian ideologist, and upon the Völkischer Beobachter, which has sounded the Nazi tocsin against Catholicism "until the point of total annihilation." If enforced, the treaty would suppress in Spain the Vatican's Osservatore Romano, which has called Hitler "anti-Christ," the Pope's encyclical With Burning Sorrow, which denounced Nazi racialist principles. In short, the terms of the treaty were directly at variance with a Franco pledge, cited last week by Jesuit America, that...
...same ill-chosen evening, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, addressing the Michigan League of Women Voters, clanged an equally unheard tocsin. His theme: glorification of "Yes, but" statesmen, as preservers of democracy's traditions...
...National Health Conference in Washington, D. C. last fortnight, the American Medical Association bitterly denounced President Roosevelt's suggestion that the Government provide medical care for needy citizens. Scarcely had the conference adjourned when the Government sounded the tocsin for its first pitched battle with the A. M. A. Reason: the A. M. A.'s boycott of the Group Health Association...