Word: basic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basic principle of decentralization, its independence of power resources, electric light, its amazingly simplified practicality in the perfection of detail has convinced many of the most obdurate, and has frightened many of the most farseeing. For in its widest implication the Dymaxion house is rather a frightening phenomenon. It threatens the architectural aesthetic round on an accumulative tradition, of Roman, Romanesque and Renaissance design. It dispenses with contracting engineers, with servants, with such domestic appendages as laundries, custom built furniture, electric light bulbs, carpets. It threatens the present economic system of centralized control of natural resources. It may mean...
Defense. When debate opened in the House, the bill's principal author, Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee, gave a three-hour lecture on its meaning. His chief points were: 1) tariff protection means Prosperity; 2) rates on basic commodities (beef, butter, wheat, wool, etc.) were first fixed, then related products were adjusted therefrom; 3) minor crops were given special protection to induce farmers now producing surplus cereals to turn to them as crop variants; 4) "apparent changes greatly exceed actual changes" in the bill; 5) "We should be self-sustaining and self-sufficient...
...basic question involved is a large one, one which will surely confront America for the next few decades. As yet we have been unable to decide whether we shall have active government control of business, and in the few cases where we do have it, how much power the board or commission shall wield. The Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Reserve Board are unique in being the only government bodies that have grown to a position of real power, and now both are being challenged by big business...
...half-heartedly did the Chancellor take up the unanswerable Liberal and Labor charge that the Conservative Government has done little or nothing to solve the unemployment problem. Cried Mr. Churchill: "It is the deliberate view of this Government that unemployment can be reduced normally by a revival of the basic industries. It has been urged that the Government should seek an opportunity for utilizing the national credit for stimulating general trade, and particularly in connection with assisting toward rationalization. Such transactions are far better dealt with in the sphere of regular business than by direct intervention of the state...
...immigration ordered by Congress and operative after July 1. Attorney-General Mitchell had advised him that the proclamation was mandatory. Based upon a "scientific" estimate of foreign contributions to U.S. native stock in the past 140 years, national origins is viewed with alarm by President Hoover, who believes its basic statistics unsound. But said Mr. Hoover: "I naturally dislike the duty. . . . But the President of the United States must be the first to obey the law." An effort will be made to repeal national origins in the special session of Congress, if the President mentions it in his message...