Word: abolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have something which is universally needed, but which is governed as a monopoly, that monopoly should be taken over by the state." Nor did it seem outlandish to most Britons that the 25,000 members of the National Association of Schoolmasters should petition the Board of Education to abolish Britain's ancient and exclusive public schools, as "unsuitable for democracy...
Like his father whom he idolized, Prime Minister Winston Churchill has found much to criticize in British Government. After World War I he wanted his comrades in victory to abolish the two-party system because he believed then that it would "paralyze the action of the states." Before World War II his voice rose loudest in criticizing the appeasers of Munich and the iniquities of the Tory Party machine...
...Christian hypothesis." Like many another intellectual Dr. Joad felt that the greatest evils were social evils; rid the world of these and you get rid of most others. Social evils, he decided, were "the by-products of economic circumstances. . . . The inference was obvious: remove the circumstance . . . and you would abolish the byproduct evil." Now, like many another contrite intellectual, Dr. Joad can no longer believe this because "the evil in the world today is too widespread and obtrusive ... to enable us to take any longer so easy a view of its nature and origin. . . ." The end of Joad...
From coast to coast, Senator Murray's inquiry raised a long and agonized groan about "whimsical demands," "inexplicable duplication," burdensome costs. Donald Nelson got the idea, ordered his WPB to abolish the most unnecessary forms, go easy on the others...
Nelson would not abolish the $1-a-year system, but last week he was ready to joggle some elbows around WPB. That, reportedly, was one reason why he asked Truman to hold up his blast...