Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SYSTEM OF BASIC ENGLISH - C. K. Ogden - Harcourt, Brace...
...peroration, slow and methodical. Mr. Gill drove home, into the record, if not into the ears of Commissioner Dillon, the basic theories upon which Norfolk is run, and stated that once upon a time Hurley, Ely, and Dillon had all confessed to favor these ideas. Previously he had informed Governor Ely that if he favored the Norfolk plan, he must also favor the administration, since the terms were synonymous...
...Constitution is certainly elastic in the sense that the power of government over the individual is supreme, but it is also to be noted that the Supreme Court of the United States firmly upholds he dual sovereignty idea which was the basic concept of the Constitution as written by our forefathers. The decision is therefore a milestone in the direction of definition of fundamental constitutional rights, in America...
...first year of the new deal has proved beyond any doubt one basic principle of economic law, it is that living standards cannot be abruptly reduced to square with the amount of purchasing power available. To put it another way, if there is only $40,000,000,000 worth of domestic trade, the wages that come out of that sum may be enough to pass around so that every individual gets enough to live on. But it makes no provision for payment of mortgage interest on one's home or for other debts, and, carried to its logical conclusion, makes...
...have said that Congress was unable to see the issues; I do not think that the most careful reading of the Congressional debates will uncover a single passage in which the basic issue of private production has been placed squarely before the house. There has been much talk of regulating industry, and a great deal about the right of self government in industry, and about securing the rights of labor, and preserving the rights of the employer. How about the self government of industry? Surely the minimum essentials are deciding what is to be produced, how much...