Word: ares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*"Moving mines with brains," Navy men call the mosquitoes. They are built to dart at and through enemy fleets, loose torpedoes at surface warships, make a quick getaway (if they are lucky). Submarine chasers, lighter than destroyers, carry depth charges instead of torpedoes.
"Throughout the world the whole philosophy of individual liberty is under attack. In haste to bring under control the sweeping social forces unleashed ... by the World War, by the tremendous advances in productive technology during the last quarter century, by the failure to march with a growing sense of justice...
Said Hoover of quick remedies: "I have no word of criticism but rather great sympathy for those who honestly search human experience and human thought for some easy way out, where human selfishness has no opportunities, where freedom requires no safeguards, where justice requires no striving. . . . Such dreams are not...
Just as U. S. history proved that freedom released man's creative impulses, led to the development of productive forces, stimulated inventions, spurred the commercial development of them, European experiences under Fascist and Communist dictatorships proved that freedom was never lost by a direct assault. He wrote: "The drama...
Personality. After the Hoover legends of the past ten years, Republicans meeting him for the first time are surprised to discover that he is a very able man and promptly conclude that he is badly maligned. He does not do the things that politicians are supposed to do: he cannot...