Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desirable. Let the middle class rule! Using the Communist theorist Bukharin's classification of classes he finds that the American urban middle class in alliance with the land-owning farmers can dominate the political scene. The function of this group is to avoid extremes of class conflict and to assert community interest over class interests. Their program should consist of concessions to the other two classes, avoidance of any repressive measures, and the creation of an efficient governmental machine, which functioning well, will avoid any serious stalemates...
...write on the blank check thus signed over to him last week by German voters. In his "Heads will roll in the sand" declaration he promised that when he came to power his government would "seek to abrogate or revise the Treaty [of Versailles] by diplomatic negotiations. I solemnly assert that if these fail we shall proceed to ignore or circumvent the Treaty, with legal means if possible; failing that with illegal means. The world may call that 'illegal' but I am answerable solely to the German people for my actions...
...Hitler has the right," continued Dr. Ludwig, "to assert that his ideals of race, blood and war worship are indeed the German national ideals. . . . Among all the policies of the [Hitler] regime, .persecution of the Jews is the most popular...
Largely in the hands of small family companies, the beer barrel business is booming wherever and whenever whiteoak staves, air-dried for at least two years, can be obtained. Kiln-dried staves are disdained by some brewers though their makers assert they are in no way inferior. Meantime brewers are scouring Europe to make up the 6,000,000 kegs that the U. S. needs to bring its inventory to pre-Prohibition levels. In June alone $1,000,000 worth of kegs were imported from Germany. Using U. S. labor and fittings Dr. Hammer turns out 4,000 kegs...
...around the barns in which they kept stock which might be seized. A few boasted that they had strung up electrified barbed wire, shouted, "This is a tithe war!" Infinitely distressed and completely silent was Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. The legal experts of His Majesty's Government assert that ''the tithe is property''-which of course is sacred. Tithe rates (no longer the Biblical tenth of a farmer's produce) run less than $2 per acre per year, but English farmers, faced by a 50% drop in agricultural prices since the Tithe...